› added 6 years ago

254

TIL an article in 1968 revealed widespread marijuana use among US soldiers in Vietnam. As a result of the media uproar stateside and subsequent crackdown by the army, soldiers shifted to heroin, which was odorless and harder to detect. By 1973, up to 20% of the soldiers were habitual heroin users.

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

ADOoB TIL of "Nintendocore", a musical genre that combines elements of video game theme music and sound effects to modern punk rock or metal.
a0LL TIL that his day, 20 years ago, Doomsday killed Superman. This angered so many fans that members of the DC writting team actually received death threats.
x6JbD TIL the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and takes about three and a half hours to pronounce. It is the chemical name for the protein Titin. This word is so long that it is rarely, if ever, written out in full. (link to PDF of full name)
RPP1 TIL that many of the legendary scenes in Star Wars are not physical sets, but matte oil paintings.
mxQEM TIL that our ability to taste sour comes from our ability to detect Hydrogen ions in our saliva. Hydrogen ions are Hydrogen atoms lacking their electron leaving just a proton. Thus protons are sour!