› added 8 years ago

185

TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America’s Founding Fathers, said all religions were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind … only 6 people attended his funeral.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

e09j4 TIL the Lancia Gamma had such a badly-designed engine that even turning the steering to full lock could cause high strain on the timing belt, leading to it snapping and causing significant engine damage.
095 TIL there is a Doctor in Nashville who has developed a way to cure the blind using tissue from an adult donor, and an amniotic membrane transplant with tissue from the amniotic sac.
loarN TIL that Chumash hunters would dress like deer and graze alongside their prey until they were close enough to fire an arrow
JLd1 TIL Nimrod was originally a great hunter in the Book of Genesis. In 1932, when Bugs Bunny called infamously bad hunter Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically in a Looney Tunes short, people missed the Biblical reference and assumed the word was just a generic insult.
QNxY6 TIL In the early 17th century, people began to believe plaits were an external symptom of an internal illness. A growing plait was supposed to take the illness "out" of the body, and therefore it was rarely cut off; in addition, the belief that a cut-off plait could avenge itself