› added 8 years ago

251

TIL taking Benadryl causes cognitive impairment equivalent to a BAC of 0.1%, over the legal limit to drive.

oBw8W TIL - it's now possible to see what the Hubble telescope caught on the day of your birthday. Mine was Ceres, the largest known object in the asteroid belt, also a dwarf planet. Amidst what is happening on earth right now, please don't forget to look up the night sky.
Npr8 TIL: Eddie Gein serves as a basis for Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. Ed Gein had home furnishings made from human skin and bone, as well as a shoe box full of preserved female genitalia, Bowls made of Skulls and a full body suit made a flesh.
N7Oge TIL in 2003, North Korea suggested several symbols which were included in international Unicode, later becoming emojis. They requested ☕ to mark tea houses on maps and ⚐ & ⚑ for military battles and victories. They also requested ⬆, ⬇, ⬅ (but no right arrow), ☔, ⚡, ⚠ and ⏏.
4XDLw TIL that when Redd Foxx died of a heart attack, while filming a scene for "The Royal Family", his co-stars thought that he was joking, as it was similar to a recurring bit he had on the television series "Sanford and Son"
LQYrd TIL: Your memories aren’t stored in a single place – Instead, they are reconstructed from different brain regions every time you recall them. Over time, repeatedly recalling a memory can make it more about how you last remembered it rather than the original event itself.