› added 11 years ago

557

TIL Matthew McConaughey has a food fetish and sometimes has to stop eating because he gets too sexually aroused by the food

Read more askmcom

via reddit.com

9my6 TIL Szechuan peppers cause numbness when eaten because they contain hydroxy-alpha-sanshool, a molecule that binds to cells’ tactile receptors to chemically simulate the same sensation as being vibrated at 50 hertz.
D1NVp TIL that Harriet Tubman once pretended to read a newspaper on a train to avoid being recognised by a former master. Because the man knew Harriet was illiterate, he ignored the black woman reading on the train.
QJ5vd TIL A 2017 study on censorship in Kidz Bop found that replacing words and phrases in songs does not disassociate the original in the minds of young listeners who have heard the uncensored song.
Y7GkA TIL that Elizabeth Johnson, one of the women accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials, was only officially exonorated in 2022
wAEJ TIL that lost WWII planes were discovered in mint condition in a Myanmar jungle in 2012- almost 140 were found still in crates underground