› added 9 years ago

138

TIL a Utah man ate at Benihana 579 times in one year to win a contest. His reward was $1,000 and a trip to any Benihana

Read more eater.com

via reddit.com

bxa TIL 97% of girls in Egypt have had their clitoris cut off.
noJY TIL 70% of lotto winners run through their money within 5 years, and it doesn’t matter whether they won $1 million or $100 million
9YjXm TIL That WD-40 is called WD-40 because It took Rocket Chemical Company 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out.
KjeB TIL that there is a disorder named Pica, which is often caused by iron or other mineral deficiencies. The person suffering from it craves for things which have no nutritional value such as paper, clay, metal, chalk, soil, glass, or sand.
Rd69 TIL the Soviet government advised those working on the Chernobyl disaster to drink half a glass of vodka for every two hours in Chernobyl. The radiation was supposed to accumulate in the thyroid glands and the vodka was thought to help clean out the radiation.