› added 6 years ago

278

TIL that the United States has officially been in a continuous state of emergency since the September 11th Attacks.

Read more federalregister.gov

via reddit.com

GY8lQ TIL the band Radiohead were originally called On A Friday. They renamed themselves after the title of a Talking Heads song.
1aXdV TIL that the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry dated a deaf women actually hired a deaf actor. Her name is Marlee Matlin, and she is the only deaf performer to win an academy award.
5VvP TIL They are so good at recycling, Sweden actually imports garbage
XbRk Til Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated with a technique (explained in the vid) learned in under 2 minutes.
J1QoQ TIL that sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.