› added 7 years ago

125

TIL that states such as Alabama and South Carolina still had laws preventing interracial marriage until 2000, where they were changed with 40% of each state opposing the change

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

e0nRb TIL that the medical term for buttcrack is the "intergluteal cleft"
J1N8Q TIL the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, which refers to female characters in fiction being killed or seriously harmed to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, is particularly prevalent in the MCU
nWpWP TIL that if you have hazel, blue, or green eyes, and blonde or red hair, you have a higher chance of developing skin cancer.
46Ng TIL that in 1917, a bank in Utah was built using 80,000 bricks mailed via USPS in 50-pound packages to save on freight costs.
JPov TIL that Iron Man is either powered by Open Source software or made of Lego. (according to this eagle eyed programmer)