› added 2 weeks ago

4

TIL that the ideal biblical woman is both a homemaker who gets up early to cook and care for her family, and a successful businesswoman who buys land, turns it into a vineyard, and sells homemade clothes ensuring her family is never poor.

Read more christianity.com

via reddit.com

oBlDY TIL about "Earthquake Baroque", an architectural style developed after a series of earthquakes on the Philippines - stone buildings like churches were made low and wide, with thick, buttressed walls like fortress ramparts
rR0lW TIL that the NFL sent a cease and desist order to an Indiana Church in 2007 for charging admission to a Super Bowl party that was showing the game on a TV larger than 55 inches thus infringing on the NFL’s copyright laws.
JYjVV TIL TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, a Swanson worker misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving by 26 TONS! Somebody then came up with a plan: Why not slice the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born!
YVxG TIL there is an actual measurable difference between a pond and a lake. “If the water is deep enough that light does not get to the bottom, the body of water is considered a lake. A pond is a body of water shallow enough to support rooted plants.”
5RKD TIL the reason your body temp raises while you have a fever is because most bacteria cannot reproduce above 102°F