› added 4 years ago

71

TIL Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in an erroneously labeled "natural" or "primitive" state.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

P14eg TIL that Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was on a Star Wars Christmas album released in 1980. He had a job sweeping floors at the studio the album was being recorded in and the producer had him sing lead vocals on "R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas".
m18OR TIL that there are chickens called "Easter Eggers" that can lay blue, green, cream, olive, or pink eggs. (One egg color per chicken, but different Easter Egger chickens can lay different colored eggs.)
Lk6Kp TIL James Chadwick intended studying mathematics, but he was interviewed by a physicist who assumed Chadwick wanted to study physics. He was too shy to contradict him, so ended up enrolling as a physics major.
4k0m6 TIL Tibetan monks practice chöd, a ritual involving meditation in haunted places and visualizing offering their own bodies to spirits as a feast. They spend nights in graveyards, aiming to dissolve ego, confront mortality, and transcend fear, achieving compassion and detachment by embracing death.
JYxkV TIL that for 70 years a bunch of New Zealanders have continued to fervently believe that moose still live on the South Island of NZ despite no actual sightings since 1952 - the mystery has been compared to Bigfoot