› added 6 years ago

94

TIL Vikings honored their high ranking women warriors with the same ceremony and respect awarded to all successful professional warriors.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WJv8 TIL that Woody Harrelson is a vegan, and so on the set for Zombieland he didn’t actually eat any regular twinkies. Instead, a special vegan version from cornflour was made.
dDw9B TIL in Japan raw eggs are generally safe to eat. This is because the country has developed a "super egg machine" that checks the inside of the eggs for salmonella using spectroscopic analysis. It also cleans the eggs without breaking their shells, dries them, and packages them so they are safe.
4X4eR TIL Brandon Novak gives out his phone number on the internet to speak to strangers battling addiction. People have said he talked to them for an hour and then 20 more times over the next month.
kwog TIL that DUI checkpoints are illegal in 11 states because they are considered to be a violation of the 4th Amendment due to drivers being stopped without reason
XE48r TIL after making edits and appealing to the MPAA for an R rating, Scarface director Brian DePalma felt that the cuts he made were so minor no one would notice if he put them back in, so he did.