› added 8 years ago

175

TIL the term Limerence: which is the feeling of infatuated love -usually the warm tingling sensation when you think of the one you are attracted to.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

78nML TIL in 1977 Indian painter, PK Mahanandia, sold his belongings and cycled 4,000 miles from India to Sweden to visit his love, Charlotte von Schedvin, because he couldn't afford a plane ticket. They're now married and have 2 children
5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
Wwa8 TIL: “Government once even claimed that Hooters discriminates against men because it hires big-breasted female waiters. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only dropped its complaint after Hooters ran a commercial showing a hairy male server wearing Hooters’ skimpy uniform.”
OoOZ6 TIL Meg and Jack White of the White stripes publicly portrayed themselves as siblings despite the fact that they weren't related and had married in 1996 prior to the band's formation.
4Xn95 TIL Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska was instrumental in the release of the Pentagon Papers, using his seat on an obscure committee to force the Papers into Congressional record