› added 2 years ago

70

TIL: Carrie, Stephen King's first novel that launched his career, was rescued from the trash can after his wife Tabatha removed the crumpled up pages, read them and told her husband she wanted to know the rest of the story

Read more groovyhistory.com

via reddit.com

wLPy1 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices
BgE4b TIL That The human Ear is considered an Organ. Other organs include our Brain, Heart and Stomach.
yQ45l TIL no matter what height a squirrel falls from, it will almost always survive due to its relatively low terminal velocity.
aw4jo TIL that up until World War I, it was common for both men and women to have long hair. The unsanitary conditions of trench warfare caused men to adopt short hair to avoid lice and fleas. Due to the number of war veterans and the prestige granted to them, short hair became the dominant style for men.
e9L4 TIL the luxury automobile division of the Rolls Royce brand is actually owned by BMW. The actual Rolls Royce company operates exclusively in the defense sector, building planes, ship engines, and nuclear submarines.