› added 3 years ago

82

TIL some Appalachians believe women should not can foods during their menstrual cycles because the lid won't seal and the food will spoil

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

rDb1 TIL Romans used urine to clean their clothes.
J1OyV Today I learned, the origin of marbles is unknown.
m1lnE TIL that ~30% of Israeli McDonalds don’t serve McFlurrys because they are under kosher supervision, which means that they don’t serve meat and dairy products together
Ywrv TIL Iceland is extremely protective of their language, instead of loaning words from other languages they repurpose old ones, telephone is ‘simi’, meaning thread, jet plane is 'thota’, meaning to zoom and the word for computer, 'tölva’ translates to number priestess or numbers witch.
awV8A TIL of Machine Identification Code (MIC), a pattern of yellow dots color printers add to their output that has metadata about the printer, the document and the operator. Its existence was secret for more than 15 years.