› added 4 years ago

302

TIL: Ostriches are the only birds that have bladders

Read more worldofowls.com

via reddit.com

Bjlk TIL James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey company, once bought a 10-year-old slave girl for six handkerchiefs because he wanted to sketch the event as cannibals killed, mutilated, and finally, ate her.
gwj8 TIL: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ in 2012
JYoDl TIL In Ghana, imported second-hand clothing is known as 'obroni wawo', or 'dead white man's clothes.'
naXB TIL a man with a dream to swim with whales, hid at Seaworld after closing. He tried to swim with the killer whale Tillikum, only to be killed by him. His parents then sued Seaworld claiming that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there.
GYe0g TIL That Subhas Ramsaywack who played a Janitor named Subhas on the TV show 30 Rock, was an actual janitor who worked at Silvercup Studios, where the show was filmed.