› added 4 years ago

456

TIL that the banana is a herb.

Read more bananalink.org.uk

via reddit.com

QJZkX TIL: Ainan Cawley has, allegedly, the highest IQ ever; said his first word at 2 weeks old, started walking at 6 months, he passed GCSE chemistry at 7, recited pi to 518 d.p. and remembered the periodic table at the age of 9.
9YOV7 TIL In 2014, Walter Williams was pronounced dead. Paperwork was completed, he was put in a body bag and taken to a funeral home. When he was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move and the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. He was still alive. Two weeks later he died for real.
1674V TIL: England Holds World's First National State Lottery on January 11, 1569 at St. Paul's Cathedral in London
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.
XEn0j SpaceX astronauts brought a little dinosaur in the rocket.