› added 12 years ago

105

TIL Elmo’s dad was deployed in Iraq

Read more sesameworkshop.org

via reddit.com

rR8ge TIL 17th century twerking where "young wenches" indulged in a "wanton sport" called "moulding of Cocklebread" where they would "get upon a Tableboard, and […] they wabble to and fro with the Buttocks as if they were kneading of Dough with their Arses"
p8wrG TIL that the world is facing a global sand crisis because sand and gravel mining greatly exceeds natural renewal rate.
0wajv TIL that the French word for the cultivar group that includes snap peas and snow peas is "mangetout", which literally translates to "eat all"
vPbwK TIL thst after L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986, the Church of Scientology said he'd left his body behind because it was getting in the way of his work. He'd gone off to another planet to do some scientific research, having "learned how to do it without a body. "
Ddjv TIL A Marine Corporal saved two fellow Marines in Iraq by covering a live grenade with his helmet and body.