› added 5 years ago

285

TIL the FCC prohibits the phrase "Jesus Christ" from being said on network TV as an exclamation/expletive; you can say "Jesus", you can say "Christ", but you can't say "Jesus Christ" unless he's literally on screen as the man from the Bible. The term "goddamn it" is also banned from U.S. network TV.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

vjW4 TIL the majority of Yemen uses a drug called qat every day at 2PM
ZJrv TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
7rraL TIL that "ye olde shoppe" is a distortion of "Þe olde shoppe": English used to have a character for "th": Þ
XEYn8 TIL Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s wife kept hanging up on his phone calls from the ISS thinking he was a telemarketer. The 3 second delay made her think no one was on the other side of the line when she’d answer. NASA then gave her the ISS’s phone number so her phone read “SPACE” each time he called.