› added 1 year ago

68

TIL: Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python sketch

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N7QMN TIL that over half of Japanese hot springs (onsen) ban people with tattoos from using their facilities in order to keep out members of the Yakuza, who often have large, prominent tattoos.
AXrB TIL Undercover cops in England had children with the political activists they were spying on
ypnJ TIL - There is a girl that can say any word backwards or forwards. Her brain was trained as a child to visualize words differently than most.
RbXQ TIL the CIA attempted to discredit Castro by making his beard fall off.
91ZQ TIL When a Canadian nuclear reactor melted down in the 1950s, Jimmy Carter was one of the Americans sent to help. His crew built an exact replica of the reactor on a Tennis court to practice disassembling it, and had to enter and take apart the reactor one piece at a time, 90 seconds at a time.