› added 7 years ago

218

TIL: To become an astronaut in Japan you are tested in your ability to fold a thousand paper cranes.

Read more meanwhile-in-japan.com

via reddit.com

7WaX TIL that a man was able to survive solely on beer and water for 46 days
6Ed67 TIL the U.S. Census Bureau removed Central and South American as options, because people from the Midwest and the South would mistakenly pick them.
b64e0 TIL: People used to perform pregnancy tests by injecting urine into a frog. If the frog is female and has eggs at near its rear end after 12 hours then the woman is pregnant. If the frog is male and produces sperm, then the woman is pregnant.
R79X4 TIL a mob member hired an architect to design his house, then murdered the architect when the architect asked for a bill
jN4KR TIL that Marvin Gaye died in April of 1984 after being shot twice in the chest. Marvin had tried to break up a fight between his parents when Marvin's father pulled out a .38 Smith & Wesson, a Christmas gift from Marvin to his father from the year before, and fatally shot his son.