› added 10 years ago

219

TIL Queen Elizabeth ordered an archbishop to take out a tooth of his own not once but TWICE just to prove the procedure of extracting a tooth was safe and bearable.

Read more sempereademelizabeth.wordpress.com

via reddit.com

1a5GP TIL Trident chewing gum contains pork
N7pr1 TIL that so prevalent is the empty cardboard box's reputation as a plaything that in 2005 a cardboard box was added to the National Toy Hall of Fame.
WboA TIL India’s government once released about 25,000 flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpses polluting the Ganges river.
R54Q6 TIL The name of the Ghibli animation studio was chosen because of Miyazaki's interest in airplanes, this is the nickname of an Italian aircraft with the full name Caproni Ca.309. In addition, in Italian, it means hot wind in the desert.
8eQkL TIL that in Japan, there is a hotel run entirely by robots. From check-in to room service, everything is handled by a team of friendly machines