› added 5 years ago

73

TIL that the "Where do we go now?" ending to Guns N Roses 'Sweet Child O' Mine' was born from the band not knowing how to finish that part of the song.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

g517 TIL of the Peter Principle; anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. Applied to a workplace, this means “every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
VyA4 TIL It was “Flavor Aid,” not “Kool-Aid” that poisoned the suicidal members of the Jonestown Massacre, an incident which gave us the phrase “don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”
KObm9 TIL about Nuclear Semiotics - the study of how to warn people 10,000+ years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared
G7l1 TIL 1 in every 100 american adults are in prison, and that the U.S has more people in prison than China.
Z8wVD TIL that the Danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even Danish children have trouble understanding it, learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.