› added 7 years ago

118

TIL that green smarties are strawberry flavored.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jrnM TIL that ‘I before E except after C’ has 923 exceptions, 21 times the number of rules which follow it
XEank TIL moviegoers seeing "13 Ghosts" in 1960 could choose if they wanted to see the ghosts or not. The ghosts were added with a red filter on scenes with a blue filter. People were given viewers with red and blue cellophane, and depending on which one they looked through could "remove" the ghosts.
d8Eld TIL Jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman, according to math.
XEWQr TIL the phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” expresses the sentiment that revenge that is delayed, and executed well after the heat of anger has dissipated, is more satisfying than revenge taken as an immediate act of rage.
N7pWP TIL That Nazi Germany asked if J.R.R. Tolkien was Aryan before translating 'The Hobbit' into German. He responded pointing out the "incorrect Nazi aumption" on what Aryan means and expressed regret of having a german surname.