› added 2 months ago

21

TIL that the Discovery Channel and its related brand is a popular fashion line in East Asia

Read more kedglobal.com

via reddit.com

M7BR8 TIL that in early 20th century America, ice-sitting challenges were all the rage. In 1900, Benton Harbor included an ice-sitting event in its July Fourth celebration. In 1926, three men sat on a block of ice for 30 minutes each to win a $30 prize at a community picnic in Ohio.
6EM7 TIL that during a hurricane and its aftermath the two most purchased items in Wal-Mart are beer and strawberry pop tarts.
P1xRV TIL that In 1842, experiments we're conducted to determine the windspeed needed to pluck a chicken for tornado research
neY8o TIL That a study on drinking alcohol found that the amount of shrinkage in the hippocampus — the brain area associated with memory and reasoning — was related to the amount people drank. Those who had four or more drinks a day had almost six times the risk of hippocampal shrinkage as did nondrinkers
p8DZA TIL in the 1970s food advertising started moving, which is why we see all the fancy tricks: shrimp doing flips, apples sliced in mid air, lobster claws cracking in slow-motion, french fries bouncing across a table. Because of Elbert Budin.