› added 4 years ago

128

TIL the Jewish-American mafia played of the name of the Sicilian mafia "Cosa Nostra" ("Our thing") by dubbing themselves "Kosher Nostra"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pY7re TIL The founder of France's criminal investigative agency, Eugène François Vidocq, was an escaped convict. Vidocq's superiors would repeatedly receive messages from jails demanding Vidocq's arrest, they were ignored and ultimately Vidocq received a pardon from King Louis XVIII.
rxao TIL that in Brazil there is a football field located exactly on the equator so each team defends one hemisphere
9Lnm TIL the expiration dates on water bottles is for the bottle and not for the water. The water doesn’t go bad but the bottle “expires” and starts leaching chemicals into the water.
aww5Z TIL the scene in Blazing Saddles in which a character knocks out a horse with a punch was inspired by a real life event in which Mel Brook's friend Sid Caesar knocked out a horse with a punch after it had thrown his wife off its back.
GAoe4 TIL the slogan for Kazakhstan's tourism board is "Very nice!"