› added 13 years ago

354

TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.

Read more macmillandictionaryblog.com

via reddit.com

xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
b69RZ TIL airports renumber their runways because the magnetic pole is not fixed, and headings change slightly over time
ADbkd TIL foxes are more closely related to walruses than to cats
5Ym0p TIL 33 actors from all the Star Trek series all starred in the cartoon Gargoyles (1994 - 1997). It also had 5 writers from Star Trek and two artists who had worked on the Marvel Star Trek comics.
Z5Kp TIL that veterinarians used to believe that dogs saw only in black and white, but studies suggest that they actually do have some color vision. Dogs see the colors of the world as yellow, blue, and gray. Many common colors used for dog toys are actually hard for a dog to see.