› added 3 years ago

116

TIL that Jeffrey Dahmer photobombed nearly every group photo for the school yearbook and was finally caught when taking a picture with National Honor Society

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

W5Od TIL that during the Yule, one of the festivals which Christmas originated from, the Norse god Odin is believed to lead a ghostly procession called the Wild Hunt across the night sky, and undead draugar will rise and walk the earth.
lapV TIL Alfred Hitchcock made the first recorded “Thats what she said” joke in 1929.
xVXED TIL in 1946, a local chicken farmer offered 100 chicks for each homer the Nashua Dodgers hit. Newcomer Roy Campanella hit 14 in his first season and sent all 1,400 to his father who used them to start a thriving poultry farm. He also went on to become one of the first black major league players.
oRjYR TIL about the Krill Paradox. Krill's chief predator are whales and as they've declined through hunting krill numbers have also paradoxically declined. Turns out, whale poo is a natural fertilizer for plankton (whale dung contains 10m times iron than sea water) which in turn are fed upon by krill.
X0DNr TIL there is a Starbucks at the CIA known as "Stealthy Starbucks" that does not show up on GPS. Employees must go through extensive background checks and names cannot be written on cups, even aliases.