› added 3 years ago

718

TIL Spencer’s owns Spirit Halloween. Half of Spencer’s yearly revenue comes from just two months of sales from Halloween costumes.

Read more mentalfloss.com

via reddit.com

D1WgD TIL the camera used to film Mary Poppins has never been successfully replicated. It's special prism could create "green screen" effects before modern green screens were invented, and is utterly unique.
PYweg TIL that there are 400 known albino redwoods, which survive by getting sugar through roots of nearby trees
neeGY TIL that due to heavy snow in 1891, the 3 p.m. train service from Paddington to Plymouth left on 9 March and arrived on 13 March
xe9D TIL In the United States, mass shootings are not growing in frequency, and evidence shows a downward trend since the 90’s.
nekaY TIL the large tires on tractors are commonly filled with liquid rather than air