› added 4 years ago

77

TIL that the reflex of sneezing because of sunlight is called the Photic Sneeze Reflex. It is also known as Autosomal Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst, which can be abbreviated as ACHOO.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

V9dm TIL Even though Wierd Al does not need to ask for permission for his parodies and does not need to pay royalties yet he only makes parodies with permission of the original artists and pays royalties for the songs as well.
b96lE TIL a handful of companies most people know nothing about like YKK, Luxottica, Heartbrand, AB InBev run the business world and are holding back the economy
nemlP TIL Back in the 1980's people were able to download Video Games from a radio broadcast by recording the sounds onto a cassette tape that they could then play on their computers.
E109X TIL that when the Incas first saw horses brought over by the Spanish in the 1530s they described them as "Large Llamas with Silver Shoes"
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".