› added 8 years ago

222

TIL that Japanese bathrooms have a button that plays the flushing sound to mask the sound of your own business.

Read more blog.gaijinpot.com

via reddit.com

X0V4E TIL the largest unfinished church in the world, the Sagrada Família, began construction in 1886. It is expected to be completed in 2026, nearly 150 years after it began construction.
nJx9 TIL that Peter the Great made moustaches a requirement for every soldier in the Russian Army.
1j6P TIL: Pixar changed the plot of ‘Finding Dory’ upon watching the 2013 documentary 'Blackfish’
GAZ7 TIL: that when the author of Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) did the recording for the audio book, it took him 17 takes to record the passage about her death because each time he would cry or his voice would crack.
Agyw TIL There exists an opposite condition to paranoia, pronoia is the delusion that a massive conspiracy exists to aid you.