› added 2 months ago

5

TIL: Phil Connors(Bill Murray's character in "Groundhog day") was calculated to have looped the same day for 33 years and 350 days.

Read more whatculture.com

via reddit.com

AN7p4 TIL a birthday cake after the candles were blown out has 1400% more bacteria than before the blowing
Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.
16vwD TIL there were various hippopotami-based deities over ancient Egyptian civilisation. Taweret protected birth and childrearing co-existed with Ipet, whose "white, dazzling, sweet milk" facilitated the afterlife. Later came Ammit to devour the unjust. All goddess hippos had pendulous human breasts
XEjA8 TIL Wine, Beer and Cider can make hay fever worse, whilst Gin and Vodka are less likely to trigger a reaction.
x9Gg TIL: Liberia was a founding member of the UN and a successful African nation…until 1980 when a USA-backed coup assassinated the President, and executed the entire government. Liberia collapsed into a civil war and never recovered.