› added 8 years ago

1345

TIL that pointing became considered rude because originally it was thought that you were casting a spell on the other person.

Read more people.howstuffworks.com

via ift.tt

XGG6 TIL after Disney sued Deadmau5 claiming his mask looked too similar to the Mickey Mouse head, he sued them back for using one of his songs without his permission in one of their videos.
OolOX TIL In the US from 2014-2018, an average of 19,700 patients per year went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills. There’s an annual average of 8,900 home fires involving grills, hibachis or barbecues.
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
BrQD TIL One gallon (4 liters) of gasoline has about 31 million calories.
P1n0Z TIL that Vincent van Gogh was so in love with his widowed cousin that he held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle while saying to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame."