› added 10 years ago

91

TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s last name was Moon.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rNYOy TiL that Vermont declared war on Germany months before the United States.
Qmv9 TIL: That the dewey decimal system, used to classify and order books in libraries, has one for Extraterrestrial History: 999. Aparently the guy who made this system in the 1800s was already prepared for an interplanetary/interstellar future for humanity
E15Wd TIL athletes involved in the East German doping program are estimated to suffer from rates of cardiovascular disease or cancer up to five-times higher than the general population and live 10-12 years fewer
e0Leg TIL George A. Romero wrote a whole screenplay for a Resident Evil movie after watching a playthrough of the first game, but Capcom rejected it.
awZOZ TIL that composer Johann Schobert (NOT Schubert) died from eating poisonous mushrooms, after two people told him not to eat them. A doctor friend insisted that they were edible. Schobert, the doctor, his wife, and all but one of his children ate the resulting mushroom soup and died.