› added 10 months ago

23

TIL that Mel Brook's character in Blazing Saddles was named after a famous French flatulist, Joseph Pujol, better known by his stage name Le Pétomane.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADjKd TIL, the color "Baker-Miller" Pink is use in prisons and Mental health institutes to "reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior"
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.
PYyoJ TIL: A Man saves a drowning boy from a River, 30 Years after saving the same boys farther
LklKQ TIL Charles Darwin wrote a pros and cons of marriage ( including the positivity of “female chit-chat) before marrying his cousin
VB0kQ TIL due to their superior smelling and climbing capabilities, police departments in Southeastern China have started utilizing squirrels as alternate drug sniffer units over the usual canines.