› added 7 years ago

90

TIL a koi fish named Hanako lived to be over 200 years old.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j6RXp TIL the Pillsbury Doughboy has a family including his wife, Poppie Fresh, their kids, Popper and Bun-Bun, Flapjack, the family dog, and Biscuit, the cat. Pillsbury sold them as dolls and various playsets in the 1970s
9YKrD TIL that a 'basket case' was coined in WWI to describe a soldier who had lost his limbs in battle and was carried out 'in a basket'
756Z TIL that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while serving as President. He was charged, booked, and later released after paying a fine for speeding. On a horse.
bJy0 TIL that installing blue streetlights resulted in a 9% decrease in crime in Nara, Japan. It also put an end to suicides at Keihin Railway’s Gumyoji Station after the railway installed blue lights on the ends of platforms.
mMwM TIL there are more than 200 corpses on Mount Everest. They are used as trail markers for climbers and many of the bodies have earned nicknames.