› added 11 years ago

167

TIL that corned beef and cabbage is a rare dish in Ireland and NEVER eaten on St. Patrick’s Day!

Read more europeancuisines.com

via reddit.com

mx6Ey TIL When Al Kaplon lost his job as a minor league umpire, he took his talents to Hollywood and has been an umpire or referee on movies and TV like "American Gladiators", "The X-Flies", and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". He's even been an umpire for a Viagra ad.
mxJQy TIL Butterflies were around on Earth 70 million years before flowers
xVNo5 TIL that Hitler was a vegetarian and would give vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal slaughter to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat.
69AQZ TIL that Northeast Greenland National Park holds the title as the world's largest park. If it were a country, it would rank as the 29th largest by land area.
0Bap TIL of the “Mormon Lost Boys:” young men who are ejected from polygynous communities to reduce competition and ensure enough females for a 3:1 f/m ratio. They are often dumped on the highway and told not to return, they are “dead” to their families.