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TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 7:36 am

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TIL: Former NFL kicker Cole Ford once shot into Siegfried and Roy’s house because he blamed them for “dominance and unhealthy intimacy” with their animals.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 9:43 pm

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Mental illness is being blamed for the recent massacres lately, how do you feel about this?

by QuestionGuy June 2, 2022, 7:04 pm

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TIL Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, empowered his imperial princes because he blamed the weakening of imperial princes for the preceding Wei Dynasty’s fall. Ironically, this led to the destabilization of his own dynasty and forced their retreat south of the Huai river

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 8:47 am

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TIL About the Đorđe Martinović Incident – A Serbian man from Kosovo who lodged a beer bottle in his anus and later blamed Albanians

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 1:33 pm

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TIL at least nine fatal crashes involving F-16 fighter jets and an A-10 attack jet were blamed on pilots having issues with urinating mid-flight

by whatilearned April 4, 2022, 8:19 pm

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my friend decided it was a good idea to bring in an extremely realistic toy gun into school, and be surprised that he’s gotta go to the principal, and then when asked why he brought in the toy gun, he “as a joke” blamed the jews and the women.

by CopyPastaArchive February 19, 2022, 12:38 pm

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TIL that Errol Flynn caused Abbott and Costello to break up. Flynn invited them & their families for dinner, and after, showed a home movie that “accidentally” was hard-core porno. While Flynn pretended to be baffled, Costello and Abbott each blamed the other for the film’s substitution.

by whatilearned February 18, 2022, 2:47 pm

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TIL that Mercedes McCambridge’s (the actress who voiced the demon in The Exorcist) son embezzled extensively from his company, got caught, and murdered his family and then himself. He blamed his mother.

by whatilearned February 15, 2022, 5:46 pm

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Mario swears and kid is blamed in [email protected] language

by CopyPastaArchive February 11, 2022, 8:12 pm

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TIL the city of Hammond, IN built a wall across its border with Gary, IN in 1981. Local leaders blamed flooding issues for necessitating the wall between the two cities. In 2006, they constructed a curb to restrict vehicle access to neighboring Calumet City, IL.

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 12:49 am

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TIL George H.W. Bush was obsessive about his hatred of broccoli, he mentioned it 70 times during his presidency, banned it from the White House, and blamed the extinction of the dinosaurs on it.

by whatilearned November 15, 2021, 3:16 pm

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