› added 6 years ago

185

TIL a villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, until he saw the grenade in a government flyer

Read more popularmechanics.com

via reddit.com

P1pEw TIL Cottons are related to Okras.
j6P9N TIL Robert Fripp, Guitarist and Founder of King Crimson composed the Windows Vista startup sound
xvgg TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip
oB9YL TIL In 1945, a woman was found with a knife in her neck and bullet wound to the head. A message in lipstick was left on the walls "For heavens sake, catch me before I kill more, I cannot control myself"
m1wZY TIL that the term Scapegoat stems from an ancient goat sacrifice ritual in Ancient Judaism and likely older 2400 BC Ebla (Modern day Syria)