Post * W149 — Curious Curator

› added 10 years ago

188

TIL that a morbidly obese Houston man managed to sneak a pistol into a jail by hiding it in his fat folds, before admitting it to the police many hours later.

Read more

M7OJK TIL: Fossil fuels such as oil do not come from dinosaurs

x6E8B TIL that the Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a commentary about meat production. Director Tobe Hooper said, "I gave up meat while making that film. In a way I thought the heart of the film was about meat; it’s about the chain of life and killing sentient beings."

vk1K TIL the lyrics of O Canada in English talk about protecting the country, while in French they talk about the country protecting its people.

kJYw1 TIL that Papin invented the pressure cooker in 1679 for extracting gelatine from bones and reducing the time needed to cook food.

OGVZ4 TIL that in 2020, researchers tried to determine the actual effects of ingesting George's Marvelous Medicine (from the Roald Dahl book), consisting of shampoo, anti-freeze, brown paint, floor polish, and 30 other household items. It would cause vomiting, kidney injury, convulsions, and likely death.