› added 11 years ago

56

TIL The only national soccer team that has never lost to Brazil is … Norway.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

78Lwb TIL about cherophobia - the fear of (or anxiety about) happiness.
mxy8y TIL in 1698, Emperor Peter of Russia created the "Beard Tax". If you paid 60 Rubels, you got given a 'beard token' which you used to prove you had paid. None-payers had their faces shaved off in public.
LkrJP TIL women (and only women) used to be banned from smoking in public.
y4MX TIL that Oliver Cromwell was exhumed 3 years after his death so they could put him on trial for treason and execute his corpse.
NWY6 TIL than on the 18th of April, 1930, a slow news day, the BBC’s 6:30 PM radio announcer said “There is no news” and went off the air.