› added 11 years ago

98

TIL someone bought a Tibetan Mastiff puppy in China for $1.5 million.

Read more post.barkbox.com

via reddit.com

XEmPr TIL the total weight of all the ants on earth is the same as, if not greater than the total weight of humans on the planet
wpPE TIL Thomas Edison invented the Electric Pen to copy office documents, which was a commercial Flop. 15 years later Samuel O'Reilly discovered that Edison’s machine could be modified and used to introduce ink into the skin, and later patented a tube and needle system to provide an ink reservoir.
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
lvRV TIL that a high school student absent due to a doctor’s appointment ended up locking his school down and getting held by the police after the receptionist calling him to confirm his absence thought the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song was a bomb threat
9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat