› added 8 years ago

335

TIL Prince once played ping-pong against Michael Jackson at an LA studio. Prince asked, “You want me to slam it?” MJ didn’t, dropped his paddle and left with his bodyguard. Prince then started “strutting around like a rooster” and said “Did you see that? He played like Helen Keller.”

Read more mtv.com

via reddit.com

R5DB8 TIL the Las Vegas Strip isn’t actually located in Las Vegas, but rather Paradise, Nevada, the city directly South of Las Vegas
E167W TIL a golfer can possess only one Masters green jacket. If a golfer wins multiple Masters they just award the winner the same jacket. The winner also can't hold onto their jacket and must return it to the clubhouse.
9YWvG TIL that people whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities
loNZB TIL Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint is considered to have invented abstract painting and was supposedly led to do so by a group of spirits called the "High Masters" that she contacted at séances. She left instructions that her work can only be displayed 20 years after her death at a special temple.
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today