› added 10 years ago

80

TIL a Tortoise that died in Steve Irwin’s zoo at the age of 175, was once owned by Charles Darwin

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4XxlX TIL that it is not illegal to grow, possess and consume "magic mushrooms" (Psilocybe cubensis) here in Brazil (basically because we don't have a law against it) and there is even a web store selling them (alongside shitake, shiimeji and porcini mushrooms).
0jaM TIL that Roger Federer’s coach, Peter Carter, was killed in a car crash in South Africa in 2002. Every year since 2005, Federer arranges for Carter’s parents to fly out of Adelaide to attend the Australian Open in Melbourne, where they sit in his box, stay at his hotel, and attend the celebrations.
R50Zw TIL in high school, with his imposing physique and mustache, most of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s classmates thought he was an undercover cop.
PYW5e TIL that Australian beer companies changed their bottles to prevent the extinction of a species of beetle
rDLw TIL Alabama’s constitution is the world’s longest in-use constitution, with 892 amendments. Most deal with local county-level matters, as state power is heavily centralized, and cover things like a single county’s school taxes, court fees, or bingo games. Also, Amendment 693 is inexplicably missing.