› added 4 years ago

191

TIL that you shouldn't rinse out your mouth after brushing your teeth but rather just spit it out?

Read more nhs.uk

via reddit.com

QJWVk TIL that ski resorts were openly hostile to snowboarding in the early years of the sport, leading many places to ban snowboarding entirely.
16B6V TIL the movie Grease (1978) was created as a parody for the very thing it’s typically celebrated for - Corny 1950’s teen musicals.
W7RNL TIL about Cargo Cult, example being the Melanesian islanders during WWII in pacific theater. Once American and Japanese presence withdrawn in attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the military personnel!
PYadg TIL that Winter Storms in the United States are named solely by the Weather Channel and not recognized by other agencies including the National Weather Service.
loaXA TIL Oregon was the only state admitted into the Union (year 1859) with an exclusion law written in its constitution, which forbade black people from living within its borders.