› added 5 years ago

124

TIL Jewish people are not allowed to pray at their holiest site, in order to prevent tensions with Muslims.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VppZ TIL there’s a shotgun shell that plants flowers.
d84Gd TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.
oB9PR TIL that the Dixie Chicks are still de facto "banned" from country music radio due to criticizing President Bush back in 2003. Their music is never played on many country stations.
Vy5G TIL that Rockstar Games hired a private investigator to locate the remaining relatives of one of the members of the Skatt Bros. in Utah in order to obtain license rights to the song “Walk The Night” for use in Grand Theft Auto IV
X67E TIL that the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life without parole stabbed her partner, skinned him and then tried to feed him to his children.