› added 7 months ago

17

TIL that cracking your knuckles doesn’t cause arthritis. The sound comes from harmless gas bubbles popping.

Read more health.harvard.edu

via reddit.com

GAnGN TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.
neE5Y TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
wL5m6 TIL Around 30,000 Canadians fought in the Vietnam war by volunteering to serve in the American armed forces.
D1QjP TIL a 6 and 1/2 year old boy, Tyler Samuel Lee, won a contest to draw, write and voice a full episode of Dexter’s Laboratory
KAk6 TIL A German insurance company decided to reward the success of its sales staff with a prostitute-filled orgy.