› added 4 years ago

206

TIL the Olympic torch lighting ceremony was started by the Nazis in 1936.

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

VMgQ8 TIL in 1962 Marilyn Monroe left most of her estate to her acting coach Lee Strasberg. When Strasberg died in 1982, his wife Anna, who had never known Monroe inherited her estate. In 1999 she auctioned off Monroe's personal belongings for $14 million.
6ED8Z TIL gossiping women or those who were accused of witchcraft were made to wear an iron muzzle in medival England.
9Y0gQ Today I learned The Tanukis popularized by Super Mario Brothers 3. In Japan "have legendarily been known to use their testicles as makeshift raincoats, as weapons, and as drums."
nvlP TIL of a Brazillian boy who died after fapping 42 times non-stop. He was 16 when he died.
OoRx7 TIL about breatharianism: the (false and deadly) believe that humans do not need food or water but can survice on sunlight alone.