0dmA5 TIL that Kashmir has the world's only floating post office, located on Dal Lake in Srinagar. It was relaunched in August 2011 and also includes a museum within itself.
grw6D TIL the USA is the only nation on earth where there are more guns than people
LQxEm Today I Learned that Little Miss Strange is a Jimmi Hendrix song.
b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
QNRLa TIL That Between 2012 and 2016, atleast 147 Visitors drowned in Hawai'i, nearly one a week on average, while doing common tourist activities like swimming and snorkeling....
ANKpx TIL in 2017, Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” admitted to a history of alcohol abuse, which is now thought to better account for his various health symptoms originally attributed to McDonald’s food.
yVAyX TIL that Aztecs had 18 festivities each year, 17 of which included human sacrifices. Apart from extraction of the heart, they used variety of other methods; drowning, starvation, decapitation, burning, bludgeoning, throwing from heights, forced gladiatorial combat and shooting with arrows.
m1P4p TIL Down syndrome used to be called Mongolism
vPbV8 TIL that New York City once banned baby artichokes because the entire market was controlled by the mob.
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
pYNWN TIL that if you hear "Stars and Stripes Forever" at a circus, you better run toward the exits. Circuses use the song as an way to alert employees that there's a disaster afoot, and they won't play the song at any other times.
J1Kdv TIL that there was a cold war operation that gathered official documents from trash bins, because they were frequently used as tissue paper in the tissue-paper-less east germany