› added 10 years ago

73

TIL both Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway were ambulance drivers for the Red Cross in WWI.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

W7R6B TIL that Instead of toilet paper, Ancient Roman used a sponge on the end of a long stick that was shared by everyone in the community. This device was called a Tersorium. When not is use the stick stayed in a bucket of heavily salted seawater in the communial bathroom.
78ZJb TIL: Jamaican culture was influenced by Indian immigrants and that's where Rastafarianism comes from. Indians introduced curry, cannabis and even dreadlocks to Jamaica.
XEEoX TIL: Around 200,000 people in Hong Kong eat, sleep, and clean themselves in roughly half the size of a parking spot, nicknamed Coffin Cubicles.
4PRw TIL that in 2014 Charles Manson was granted a marriage license, but the wedding was cancelled after it was discovered that 26 year old Afton Elaine “Star” Burton only wanted to marry Manson so she and a friend Craig “Gray Wolf” Hammond could use his corpse as a tourist attraction after he dies
ADwV7 TIL: Wearing a tie may seriously damage your body and eyesight