› added 4 years ago

149

TIL of Takarazuka, an all-female musical theater in Japan where women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shōjo manga and Japanese folktales.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

mxR8E TIL that divorce decrees in Canada circa 1950 could stipulate that a woman must remain chaste in order to continue receiving spousal support
N8QM TIL that during World War 1, the United States Government tried to rename hamburgers as “liberty sandwiches” to promote patriotism.
4XvMb TIL That archaeologists in Egypt discovered a 3,000-year-old prosthetic big toe fitted to the remains of a noble woman. Made from leather and wood, it was refitted several times to exactly match the woman’s foot.
d8aa9 TIL that Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guiness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognise that hummus is from Lebanon
KYoxQ TIL about Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who lived until the age of 78 in a iron lung