› added 11 years ago

231

TIL There is growing evidence the Amazon Rainforest was actually planned and maintained by indigenous populations by improving the soil and increasing biodiversity

Read more theatlantic.com

via reddit.com

XEQ96 TIL the oldest and at one point most influential British merchant bank was destroyed in 1995 when an employee made a safe bet that stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wouldn't drop, one day before the Kobe Earthquake.
BrPJx TIL that the Japanese carbonated soft drink Ramune was invented in 1884 by the Scottish pharmacist Alexander Cameron Sim. This drink became very popular with the local Japanese after it was advertised in the Tokyo Mainichi Newspaper as a preventative for cholera.
Wk5RN TIL Yamaha still use crossplane crankshafts in their I4 MotoGP engines due to a torque advantage at very high revs
l7YD7 TIL Daniel Stern famed Home Alone baddie is also an accomplished sculptor.
b9b80 TIL Death Row Records released a Christmas Album in 1996 called “Christmas on Death Row” including songs from Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and Nate Dogg.