› added 5 years ago

140

TIL a team of international scholars have been working to recreate recipes from 4000 years ago from tablets. One Mesopotamian dish resembles a chicken pot pie, with layers of dough and chunks of bird smothered by a sort of Babylonian béchamel sauce

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

6ExXY TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have 8 consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, followed by Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks with 7 each.
8L14 TIL that for winning the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, Carlsberg brewery gave Niels Bohr a house located next to their brewery, complete with a direct pipeline so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
k6od TIL In about 25% of DNA exoneration cases, innocent defendants made incriminating statements, delivered outright confessions or pleaded guilty.
jy6Q TIL it is legal to drive a car while consuming alcohol from an open container in the UK. As long as the car is driven with due care and the driver is under the legal limit.
5kPn TIL When Eminem was sued in 2003 by the bully, DeAngelo Bailey for slandering him in the song “Brain Damage”, the judge threw out the case and provided the ruling by rapping it.