› added 6 years ago

139

TIL if you fail your driving test in Switzerland more than 3 times you must take a psychological exam before being allowed to retake it.

Read more justlanded.com

via reddit.com

5V0ZR TIL that Windows in Japan has anime-girl mascots called OS-tans. Each of them has the surname of Madobe (窓辺, meaning By the Windowside) and a new one is created for each operating system starting with Windows 7. They have had various tie in products over the years in addition to promoting Windows OS
W7eEN TIL about Major Money, who was born in Montreal weeks before Canada, moved with his family to England as an infant, fought in the Boer War and WW I, and returned to Canada to operate a hotel on Vancouver Island, where he hosted, among others, Bob Hope, Errol Flynn and Shirley Temple.
NW18 TIL the biological theory that males are naturally promiscuous and females naturally monogamous was largely based on one study of fruit flies from 1948
v7J7 TIL there was a tradition in Norway, Denmark and the Faroe Islands where a girl would knit a “willy warmer” (also known as cock sock) to their boyfriends to see how seriously he took their relationship. If the gift was rejected, it was seen as evidence that he was not ready for marriage.
AD17n TIL that Kartik Naach is a dance musical play that is performed every month of Kartik (October or November) in Nepal.