› added 3 years ago

160

TIL that there is a British tradition of having Military Goats and that there are royal Goat bloodlines. There is one serving as Lance Corporal, named William Windsor.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

mmQM TIL there is a recurring hoax to ban the substance dihydrogen monoxide (or water). Among others, government representatives of New Zealand have expressed support for this ban on more than one occasion.
4X7J5 TIL Kate Winslet ultimately regretted her iconic topless scene from the titanic and absolutely refuses to sign autographs with that image.
VjrB TIL the male urethra produces a spiral stream of urine that has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus (Where the urine exits the body). The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females.
LMPP TIL: Dancing in nightclubs is illegal in Japan
XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.