› added 8 years ago

105

TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

W9ro TIL that 12 states allow child support payments via credit card, yielding yet another pathway to rack up frequent flyer miles
PDDg TIL Frank Zappa put “musician” as his religion on his son Dweezil’s birth certificate.
4NK6 TIL a guy after 9 years working for the same company, was transferred into a non-existent department. Paving the way for him to do absolutely nothing, and no one to manage him. He even was asked to write his own yearly reviews, and received raises!
yQ5kw TIL that the director/writter of the movie “Dogma” Kevin Smith went to a catholic protest at a movie theater against his own movie and even got interviewed by a local news reporter
xVGE7 TIL since pregnancy isn't seen as a medical issue, it isn't paid for by Japan's national health service. The government does give a lump sum payment of 420,000 yen to the parents though.