› added 3 weeks ago

4

TIL the restaurant betrayal scene in the Matrix used a spit bucket for actor Joe Pantoliano, who said rare beef makes him gag. In wide shots they used shiitake mushrooms rigged to look like steak for the actor to eat.

Read more inverse.com

via reddit.com

KGlR TIL over 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals. Antibiotics help them gain weight and stay healthy in overcrowded conditions, but also encourage antibiotic resistant bacteria that spread to workers and meat consumers. Pfizer has spent $900,000 fighting a bill to stop the practice.
RpKl TIL the “slow puncture”, a form of punishment in South African prisons among inmates, consisting in the rape by a person with AIDS.
jNNgR TIL there is a show on The History Channel called "Ice road truckers".
xVrVb TIL a moustache is a beard
JYjk8 TIL that during WWI, officials didn't trust units of the D.C. National Guard to secure infrastructure around the capital because so many of their men had foreign ties.The job was given to the only unit they felt they could trust as 100% American: the all-black 1st Separate Infantry.