› added 2 years ago

81

TIL that the Guinness World Records title for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is held by nonuplets from Mali. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world ever, in Australia (1971) and in Malaysia (1999), which all the babies died.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

KOWYa TIL that people in sotland have 421 words for snow!
r9L1 TIL ‘Sharknado’, a Syfy original movie, received an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
WGL TIL that the role of “Bubba” in the movie Forrest Gump was intended for Dave Chappelle. Chappelle turned down the role, claiming it was too “racially demeaning”. He later regretted his decision.
R7v01 TIL during the Black Death, the Adriatic port city of Ragusa was the first city to require mandatory 30-day isolation for sailors and traders in order to track infection. The Italians lengthened it to 40 days, or a “quaranta giorni”—hence, a quarantine.
D79e TIL that while marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, cocaine is listed as a schedule 2 and therefore able to be used pharmaceutically.