› added 8 years ago

175

TIL in the 80s Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) allegations created a morale panic putting innocent people behind bars, destroyed careers, and changed the way children are questioned. It formed the basis of many morale panics against Heavy Metal, video games, and D&D.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yVWAV TIL People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana – that are critical to many bodily functions such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control, inflammatory and immune responses, and eating.
VBpVp TIL in 1998 there was a new brand of cigarettes called Bravo that contained no nicotine or tobacco and was made with lettuce.
5pD TIL Robin Williams originally rejected the role of the Genie in Aladdin until he was shown an animation of the Genie doing his own stand-up routine.
b9LlE TIL the American voice of Solid Snake also co-wrote the movies X-MEN, X2 and WATCHMEN.
nWEWP TIL that the likely reason Italians "speak" with their hands, is that centuries ago gesticulating helped them communicate with others who spoke different local dialects.