› added 7 years ago

407

TIL - To reduce chance of Prostate Cancer, Mens Should Ejaculate 21 times in a month

Read more dailysun.co.za

via reddit.com

8exv8 TIL Lebanon bars non-citizens from becoming engineers, doctors, or lawyers, among more than 70 other prohibited occupations
NXYkE TIL until the 1980’s, US television stations would sign off at the end of the broadcasting day, and before they cut to static for the rest of the night, they would often play short clips of American landmarks and US military imagery in a patriotic montage accompanied by the star spangled banner.
lZjK TIL of Tibetan Sky Burials, a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey.
Djlv TIL that at the age of 10, Noam Chomsky wrote his first article for his school newspaper about the fall of Barcelona to Francisco Franco’s forces and the rise of fascism.
OGYb4 TIL when a coal waste pile collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, school lunch lady Nansi Williams saw the disaster coming and flung herself onto five schoolchildren to shield them from the avalanche. All five children survived, but Nansi did not.