› added 1 year ago

38

TIL: In the past, covering a yawn with one's hand was believed to protect against the devil or the loss of one's soul. The superstition likely originated from the idea that showing a yawn made one susceptible to spirits entering the wide-open mouth.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

JY88l TIL a Minnesota man once sprayed toilet-papering teens who were on his property with a squirt gun full of fox urine
o7lo TIL that in the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the waitress that Charlie has an obsessive crush on is his actual wife in real life. They got married after the first season.
XEe8 TIL The university of Texas football players ate their mascot at a sports banquet in 1920.
kO6JB TIL of Rosalynn McGinnis; She was kidnapped at the age of 12 by her stepfather and smuggled into Mexico, where she had 9 children fathered by her kidnapper. At the age of 32, 20 years after her kidnapping, her neighbors helped her and 8 of her children escape their captor and return to the U.S.
rRpLW TIL that Collateral (2004) and The Transporter (2002) take place in the same universe. Transporter director Louis Leterrier revealed that Jason Statham reprised his role as Frank Martin when he delivered the brief case to Tom Cruise in the opening scene of Collateral.