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TIL the concept of the Hogwart’s houses in the Harry Potter series, was difficult to communicate for translators of foreign editions since in some cultures there was no way of adequately describing the significance of belonging to house or being loyal to one.

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aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
nedPb TIL Bruce Lee could deliver a blow in 5/10 of a second from a distance of one meter (and 8/10 of a second from a meter and a half). It's 1/20 of the time it takes for a person to blink. At the time the standard cameras couldn't cope with the speed of Bruce's blows. His strikes were not visible.
jNwbX TIL that a 1700 year old baobab tree in Modjadjiskloof, South Africa had a 15-person full bar inside its 155 foot wide trunk called the Big Baobab Tree Bar. The bar closed and the tree eventually fell over in 2017.
6ZPQ TIL that a “get out of jail free card” was a real thing in 1567 England; a lottery to raise money for the navy promised winners “freedom from arrest” for all but the most serious crimes.
X0Xa8 TIL there are trams that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and are still in use today.