› added 4 years ago

92

TIL that Pazuzu, the demon in The Exorcist, in ancient Mesopotamia was actually the enemy of Lamashtu, a demon that preyed on newborn babies and pregnant women

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

x6EL1 TIL it’s entirely legal to eat dog and cat meat in Canada, there’s even a company in Toronto that sells dog meat called Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat
QJRRX TIL that Tesla vehicles have a "biodefense" mode that is helping people during wildfires.
J1Lbm TIL that the longest chess game in history took over 20 hours to complete and ended in a draw.
p8BmN TIL Will Ferrell's shocked reactions to the jack-in-the-box's in "Elf" were genuine, as Jon Favreau was controlling them remotely offstage.
MelDa TIL that creatures the size of Godzilla or King Kong cannot exist in real life. If you were to scale up an animal by 10x in each dimension, it would have 100x the muscle power, but 1000x the mass, likely crushing this creature to death. An animal this big would look very differnt.