TIL the world’s oldest beer advertisement was on a Mesopotamian Stone Tablet dated approximately 4000 BC. It read “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion” and was accompanied by a “large breasted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand”
TIL Sweden had a racial purity programme until 1976. More than 60,000 people were sterilized. People could apply to have "problem families" in neighborhood sterilized.
TIL that Jack black caused an earthquake In New Zealand while performing “tribute” because the crowd was bouncing so hard that it registered on the richter scale
TIL that the French writer and philosopher Georges Bataille founded a secret society called Acéphale to explore ritualism and human sacrifice, but apparently everyone volunteered to be the sacrificial victim and no one wanted to be the executioner so no sacrifice was ever carried out.
TIL that Jack black caused an earthquake In New Zealand while performing “tribute” because the crowd was bouncing so hard that it registered on the richter scale