› added 9 years ago

56

TIL: The game “Scrabble” got its big break when the president of Macy’s played it while on vacation. Upon returning he was surprised his store did not carry the game. He placed a large order and within a year everyone had to have one.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Ype8d TIL that Quentin Tarantino dropped out of High School when he was 15 and got a job at an adult movie theater called The Pussycat Theater
R5oal TIL Sears created Allstate and The Discover Card!
jgRE TIL the Azara’s owl monkey is an “unusually faithful” species. Through 18 years of research and testing, they have been found to be both socially monogamous as well as genetically. 35 offspring born to 17 pairs showed zero cheating for both sexes!
oJY TIL that in the original play and novel fairies in Neverland are extremely short lived and that, by the time of the epilogue set a year later, when Wendy asks Peter Pan about Tinker Bell he had completely forgotten she ever even existed.
BALd TIL a six-second-long drum break from the late sixties has become the most used sample of music to date, as it helped form the basis for both hip hop and drum and bass music.