TIL coffee (the drink) wasn’t invented until the 1400s in Yemen, who maintained a virtual monopoly on it until Dutch smuggled the plant to Java in the 1600s
TIL dark tree trunks absorb more solar heat than white, reflective snow, causing snow to melt in rings around trees called "thaw circles." These early bare patches give understory plants a head start
TIL The Deathstalker Scorpion is one of the deadliest in the world, but the FDA hasn't approved it's anti-venom thus the US Military has a constant "Investigational Drug Application " on file to ensur
TIL the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) is considered the most poisonous extant animal species on the planet. 1mg of the batrachotoxin poison they secrete is enough to kill between 10 & 20
TIL, Dr.Phil played linebacker for the university of Tulsa and was apart of one of the biggest blowouts in college football history, when they fell to Houston 100-6
TIL that Henry D. Cogswell built free drinking fountains in major U.S. cities because he believed that people would drink less if they had access to free drinking water. They proved unpopular, and one
TIL Vincent van Gogh declared his love and proposed marriage to his cousin Cornelia "Kee" Vos-Stricker, to which she replied "No, nay, never." Months later, Gogh traveled to Amsterdam to meet her, but
TIL when Spitfire and Hurricane engines kept cutting out in dives during WW2, the fix was a simple washer in the fuel line designed by Beatrice Shilling, an engineer who also raced motorbikes at Brook
TIL that in 2019 an Irish man was hospitalized after injecting his own semen in his arm for 18 months. He believed it would ease his chronic back pain.
TIL that Will Sawin enrolled at Yale at the age of 10, and graduated from both Yale and high school at the age of 18. He received a PhD from Princeton at the age of 23 and is the Fernholz Professor of
TIL that one of the co-creators of Keurig coffee machines sold his stake for $50,000 in 1997. In 2010 more than $2 billion of Keurig machines and K-Cups were sold.
