› added 7 years ago

104

TIL the term mothership is from the whaling trade when small, fast ships were used to chase and kill whales. The dead meat from several boats was then brought back to the larger, slower ship for processing and storage until the return to land.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

NkEN TIL that you can have seizures all your life and never know it. They are Temporal Lobe seizures and are referred to auras and include a sense of deja vu or unexplained sense if dread.
WkaY8 TIL “Infantry” sounds like “infant” as typically in ancient times an army’s infantry consisted of soldiers too young or too inexperienced to ride a horse and be part of the cavalry.
j6oeN TIL Cotton candy is called "old lady's hair" in India and Greece.
eax4 TIL that dying by crucifixion was considered so shameful in the ancient world that early Christians made up an alternate ending in which a man was mistakenly crucified in Jesus’ place.
N7B9e TIL After filming Who framed Rodger Rabbit, Bob Hoskins’ son didn’t speak to him for 2 weeks. When he finally found out why it was because his son couldn’t believe his dad had worked with Bugs Bunny and not introduced him.