› added 2 years ago

284

TIL about the ‘exploits’ of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.

Read more walksinsiderome.com

via reddit.com

awJdZ TIL The term 'Introvert and "Extrovert" was defined by Carl Jung in the 1920's in his completely scientifically untested personality theories. It is the grandfather of most personality tests including the most popular Myers Briggs which is wholly considered pseudoscience by modern psychologists.
kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.
KDkR TIL Both abstainers and heavy drinkers showed an increased mortality of about 50% over moderate drinkers
yV08l TIL that the scientific term for "brain freeze" is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It occurs when something cold touches the roof of your mouth, causing blood vessels in the area to constrict and then rapidly dilate, triggering pain.
rrVd TIL that in WWII a Brit fighter ace lost his arm in a dogfight, so the RAF medical staff made him a custom prosthetic so he could keep fighting. He would later become squadron commander