› added 4 years ago

144

TIL that The recent sales decline of Corona is due to decreased public activity in China, not due to sharing a name with covid19(coronavirus), and that this decline is experienced by many beer companies.

Read more snopes.com

via reddit.com

vGY7 TIL If a dead whale is found on a British beach, the head belongs to the king and the tail to the queen.
LkQZ0 TIL the legend of Finn McCool, a 54ft tall Irish giant who was said to have made the Isle of Man by throwing a clod of dirt at a rival in Scotland. When his enemy sought revenge, Finn McCool disguised himself as a baby. His rival saw the size of the child, assumed the father was GIGANTIC and fled
R7Bb4 TIL: there is a radioactive mass created by the Chernobyl disaster that is so dense it could only be pierced by an AKM rifle, destroyed any camera that tried to take a picture of it (photographs had to be made with a mirror), and ate through 2m of materials to arrive at its current location.
6mZl TIL that Sean Bean was once stabbed at a bar for defending a former Playboy model, refused an ambulance, and then ordered another drink.
8a4mK TIL that one of the most popular characters in the Attack On Titan anime, Levi, was not in the live action remake because the name was too difficult to write in Japanese