› added 9 years ago

94

TIL that Jimmy Carter played a major role in eliminating guinea-worm disease - a parasite that is drank, and then burrows out of your body in the form of a worm.

Read more who.int

via reddit.com

LgEm TIL that in the 1950s a scientist at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity and gave a woman a 30-minute orgasm.
6E8Ql TIL 54 oenology (wine science) students were secretly given white wine dyed with tasteless red food coloring and they overwhelmingly described the flavors as if it were red wine.
VyjG TIL Bob Dylan has been on a tour since 1988. Aptly named, The “Never Ending Tour” has had over 2,700 shows around the world, almost 100 per year for 28 years straight.
4KkN TIL Gandhi married at the age of 13. Recalling his wedding, he once said “We didn’t know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives.” He first became a father at 15 in spite of his wife spending most of her time at her mothers.
YpJ5P TIL the Taft-Hartley Act prohibits jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns