› added 7 years ago

220

TIL Canada fixes the price of dairy by law, costing Canadians an additional $300 in groceries per year — and you can go to prison for smuggling cheese across the border.

Read more nationalpost.com

via reddit.com

160QP TIL the Walker Brothers weren't brothers and their surnames weren't Walker (real names being John Maus, Scott Engel and Gary Leeds).
7QGb TIl In the Elizabethan era, sugar was very expensive and enjoyed by the wealthy, thus the wealthy were know to have bad teeth. Poorer people who couldn’t afford sugar would black out their own teeth to give the impression of wealth.
b9Gop TIL: That there is something called “The Alaskan Triangle” and 16000 people have gone missing in it since 1988.
loWa1 TIL JK Rowling told Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe that "you and Rupert and Emma are all too good looking" for their roles because she imagined her characters to be geeky looking
j6ePN TIL The Outer Space Treaty and COSPAR require that space exploration does not expose the earth to extraterrestrial contaminations. Additionally extraterrestrials cannot be exposed to contaminants from earth, so spacecrafts and lander have to be sterilized before going to other planets.