› added 5 years ago

74

TIL some Native American tribes issue their own license tags

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

16WOr TIL 6 Years After Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, his mother Alberta was shot to death in her church
GAxag TIL in various regions of India Frogs are married to invoke rain. Two frogs are caught and cleaned, and then dressed in traditional wedding clothes and tied together with a red thread. The priest then performs a puja asking for the god's blessings. Vermilion is applied to the female frog's forehead.
nWwGP TIL in the mid-20th century, a researcher wore a pair of hand-engineered goggles that completely inverted his eyesight. Although he "stumbled wildly" at first, after 10 days he had grown so accustomed to his upside-down world that "paradoxically" everything began to appear rightside-up to him again.
agNb TIL It takes the whole year’s crop from one Cocoa tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.
bOy7 TIL that in Japan, many dildos are created to resemble animals or cartoon characters, such as Hello Kitty, so that they may be sold as toys, thus avoiding obscenity laws.