› added 10 years ago

140

TIL: Getting a blood transfusion won’t change your DNA and an episode of M.A.S.H. addressed this issue in which they tricked a racist soldier to think that he had turned black after getting blood from a black donor.

Read more wisegeek.com

via reddit.com

pxDO TIL Jamie Lee Curtis saw a photo of Christopher Guest in Rolling Stone magazine and declared to a friend “Oh, I’m going to marry that guy.” She did so five months later. They’re still married today, 31 years later.
pwme TIL Witches created potions including a mix of opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms and toad skins (containing DMT) in a hempseed oil based “flying ointment” that the witches would administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the the witches “broomstick!”
j6JDp TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.
oRVDA TIL that the creators of Dragon Tales added a third kid named Enrique to the series in the third season, in an effort to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture
9wZXM TIL about Juliana, a dog that was awarded a Blue Cross medal during WWII. She saved her owner’s life by peeing on an incendiary bomb.