› added 3 years ago

115

TIL that a study was done to determine if 'bad English teeth' is a myth and it revealed that American teeth are actually worse off

Read more luxtimes.lu

via reddit.com

logrB TIL Nelson Mandela was good friends with Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and was once listed on the U.S. trerrorist watch list. He was also a fan of the Spice Girls.
VBo4Z TIL that the author of "The Last Ringbearer", a retelling of "Lord of the Rings" from Mordor's point of view, also wrote "The Gospel of Afranius", a retelling of the New Testament from an atheistic point of view
p61A TIL that in Russia, some rich people hire “ambulance taxis” to beat Moscow’s traffic jams
yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”
yQBpa TIL of Enheduanna who is the earliest known poet whose name has been recorded. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna. She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.