› added 2 years ago

74

TIL a white guy was the first to sag his pants, starting in the 1950's

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

69D8X TIL in 2012 Star Wars: A New Hope was translated into the Navajo language, becoming the first major motion picture to be dubbed in a Native American language.
R5g8j TIL Coors Brewing survived prohibition, in part, from selling malted milk to Mars candy company. And producing Manna a near beer.
69r4J TIL in 2011 a man survived an accident where he fell on the nozzle of a high pressure air hose, which pierced his left buttock & rushed air into his body at 100 pounds per square inch. He was inflated to twice his normal size with the air separating his fat from his muscles & compressing his heart.
QJKx9 TIL That beer was considered a soft drink in Russia until 2011
16Lj7 TIL that in Imperial Japan the upper house of the Diet (parliament) included not just peers, but 66 representatives of the 6,000 highest taxpayers.