› added 5 years ago

98

TIL Continuous ingestion of Colloidal Silver [an alternative medicine] can cause skin to turn an irreversible blue/grey color - a condition called Argyria

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wox68 TIL that not only do John McClane from Die Hard and Martin Riggs from Lethal weapon use the same gun, but it's the same prop.
X0kE6 TIL Rani-ki-Vav is an inverted, underground temple in India from the 11th century going 30m deep through a series of seven levels of stairs and four pavilions. With 1,500 sculptures designed to honor the sanctity of water, it is one of the best known examples of subterranean water architecture
0dMVv TIL El Cid had a horse named Babieca, which apparently means stupid, and after his death in order to scare the Moors they sent Babieca out with El Cid's corpse to lead the troops to victory.
8BZ TIL that IKEA ran the first commercial in the US featuring a homosexual couple. It was shown once and then pulled following bomb threats to the stores.
QJyO6 TIL Sears once offered mail order houses. You'd select your house then Sears would ship it to you by RailRoad and you'd assemble it yourself based on the instructions