› added 4 years ago

196

TIL that there is a link between regular Benadryl usage & the risk of getting dementia.

Read more health.harvard.edu

via reddit.com

Zwgo TIL in 1979 a large number of Swedish people were calling sick with a ‘case of being homosexual’ as protest to homosexuality being labeled an illness
l7egG TIL Giant Goose Existed
nWGrW TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”
Z8Vgp TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.
6EOgX TIL that, contrary to expectations, objects with greater drag generate less heat when entering the atmosphere. This is because a pocket of air forms in front of the object. After this was discovered in 1951, vehicles such as the Apollo capsule were designed to enter the atmosphere blunt-end first.