4koLg TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
x6Aa5 TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
5VoQ9 TIL a Chinese man was thought to have died from a lightning strike until his body exploded at his cremation. A piece of metal was found leading to the discovery that a weather rocket, meant to break up hail, had failed to explode & had fallen through the man's roof acting like a bullet, killing him.
M74M0 TIL that Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees kept getting their breast milk stolen
j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
0dm9p TIL when Arnold Schwarzenegger auditioned for the movie Hercules in New York (his film debut), his agent said he had years of "stage" experience, implying theater, when he had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.
grw88 TIL that the Community College of Denver offers a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Cannabis Science and Operations
LQxMV Today I learned that the lyrics of "baby owl" are actually the lyrics of "baby i'll rule"
b64O7 TIL Steller’s sea cows were massive, docile animals that were exterminated less than 30 years after the species was first discovered.
ANKag TIL that crocodiles and alligators are practically immortal
QNR4M TIL that a Jewish person has won the Nobel Prize in Economics 17 of the last 25 years.
yVANV TIL that in 18th century Russia there was a black African man called Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Freed from slavery and adopted by Peter the Great as his godson, he reached the status of nobility - with one of his great-grandsons being Alexander Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian writers in history.