TIL Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL Hawaii has nearly one tourist die each week while engaged in common vacation activities like swimming, snorkeling, hiking and going on scenic drives | Category: Learned Source More
TIL a convicted murderer was once granted a retrial after it was discovered that four members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victim before rendering their verdict. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL an Icelandic tradition called Jólabókaflóð exists, where books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents and the rest of the night is spent reading them and eating chocolate. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL the saying “when one door closes, another opens” is a Alexander Graham Bell quote which he then followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” | Category: Learned Source More
