› added 8 years ago

446

TIL about thirteen-year-old Yoko Moriwaki the “Japanese Anne Frank,” who kept a diary about her life during WWII. She was killed by the atomic bomb in her home town of Hiroshima and her diary was later published by her brother.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6v1J TIL if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become locust
gxp9 TIL the term Intergluteal cleft is technical term for “butt crack”
xVMlb TIL When Monty Python and the Holy Grail screened at the Cannes Film Festival, firefighters came in and made everyone in the cinema go outside as there was a bomb scare. As the projector stopped the audience roared with laughter, thinking it all part of this movie.
4ZdR TIL - The Thing (2011 prequel) was originally going to have practical effects for the Thing, almost all of which were replaced due to studio interference as being “too 80s”
R5009 TIL It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.