› added 9 years ago

230

TIL yawning is not contagious for children with autism due to their inattention to facial cues.

Read more scientificamerican.com

via reddit.com

JYbjB TIL That Queen Victoria used to take cocaine and once took the drug with Winston Churchill when he was young.
XEBw8 TIL Betsy Palmer only agreed to play the killer Mrs. Vorhees in Friday the 13th because she needed a new car, even though she believed the film to "be a piece of shit".
oo7A TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday
GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."
KVDa TIL that a pregnant Indian woman swam nearly 1 kilometer across a swollen river to give birth in a hospital instead of her home