› added 5 years ago

328

TIL NASCAR is Rooted in Prohibition Bootlegging

Read more prohibition.themobmuseum.org

via reddit.com

1aO1W TIL in 2014, scientist Michael J. Smith published a study on where it’s most and least painful to get stung by a bee. Most painful: nostril, lip, and penis shaft. Least painful: skull, middle toe tip, and arm. He won an IgNobel Prize.
8eYy8 TIL that the Iranian regime has forcefully deported 1.2 million Afghans in 2025 alone (regardless of valid visas and documentation), with them being reportedly "treated like livestock or slaves".
raXW TIL when Titanic went down, its shipping company stopped the crew’s pay but charged families the freight costs of shipping the bodies back. Most couldn’t afford it, which is why there are so many memorials rather than graves for the more than 500 crewmen from Southampton who died aboard the ship.
kJ70m TIL about some of the names given to gene mutations bred into fruit flies by scientists. Cheap Date is a gene that increases susceptibility to alcohol, the Van Gogh gene produces swirling of hair on the wings and the Swiss Cheese gene produces holes in the brain.
6jZ8 TIL, scientists successfully used E coli and Glucose to create a renewable Propane Gas.