› added 12 years ago

193

TIL that in North Korea you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.

Read more newsfeed.time.com

via reddit.com

ANgGw TIL Saturn's rings are made up of ice which is diamagnetic and hence resides in the place with the lowest magnetic effect: the equator
8e8AV TIL The Pinkerton detective agency, famous for secretly delivering president-elect Abraham Lincoln to Washington in 1861, was hired as recently as 2020 for union-busting by Amazon, and 2022 by Starbucks
Bgg9b TIL that back in 2005 a girl in London started sleepwalking and climbed a 130 feet tall crane!
E1KYW TIL There's a strain of purple marijuana called Sirius Black
g5R7 TIL Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls’ and females were 'gay girls’. Equally, a boy could be called a 'knave child’ and a girl a 'maiden child’.