› added 7 years ago

344

TIL there are still 10 people that are living in iron lungs

Read more washingtontimes.com

via ift.tt

7rKaZ TIL High School boys had to swim in the nude in schools across America until 1970
8aRB8 TIL of the Welsh Christmas tradition, Mari Lwyd, in which a skeletal horse mounted on a pole visits your door singing poetry. You are then compelled to engage in a battle of rhymes and must best it or else you’ll have to let it inside and give it food.
m9OO TIL that Wisconsin Police busted a teen kegger in which the keg was filled with root beer. The party organizer was trying to show that they didn’t need to drink alcohol for a party.
9aeG TIL One NFL Owner Hated Fellow Owner Al Davis So Much They Trained A Parrot To Call Out “F*ck You Al Davis” Anytime Someone Entered The Room
GDON TIL the mercury everyone is so scared of in vaccines (thimerosal) is actually ethylmercury, while the toxic mercury which can damage the nervous system is methylmercury. The same way that we drink ethylalcohol (ethanol) but methylalcohol (methanol) will cause you to go blind, or just plain kill you.