› added 10 years ago

120

TIL the Pope said that the Big Bang is compatible with Catholicism…Pope Pius XII…in 1951.

Read more ewtn.com

via reddit.com

K4N4 TIL popcorn was banned from movie theaters in the 1920’s because of the noise it made while eating it
yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
69mw TIL that people in Japan used to dye their teeth black
m1RZp TIL that Danish artist Kim Larsen once moved to America around 1980. Despite releasing two albums, he wasn't successful there and returned back to Denmark a few years later
5YLZ9 TIL that the name Mercedes was the name of the daughter of an entrepreneur Emil Jellinek who worked with the Diamler Motors Corporation and helped create the Mercedes 35hp in 1900