› added 8 months ago

40

TIL Arkansas men’s lung cancer rate is 40% higher than women.

Read more mesowatch.com

via reddit.com

y9VM TIL that Roman statesman Cato the Elder would often end his speeches, regardless of context, with “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam” - meaning “Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed”, due to his intense disdain toward them.
WkrYL TIL that in the 1700s, pills made out of the element antimony were taken orally as a laxative for constipated bowels. Once they passed through, they were retrieved from the excrement to be used again. Some families passed down the same pill from one generation to the next.
pY04p TIL there is a rainforest in Iran!
KOV9E TIL that one of the earliest examples of “OMG” being used was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917. “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)” – Lord Fisher
m15GP TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living".