› added 2 years ago

70

TIL There is an unsanctioned “art museum” that Astronauts on Apollo twelve snuck onto the moon.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0O1k TIL in 1925 an all African-American baseball team, the Wichita Monrovians, played against a team sponsored by and made up of Ku Klux Klan members. The Monrovians won 10-8.
NX8VP TIL that the castaways in Gilligan's Island never escaped the island in the show's original run. In a 1978 TV movie they make it off the island, only to end up stranded again. A final 1981 film features the Harlem Globetrotters visiting a resort the castaways set up on the island after being rescued
mnPY TIL Jesus is mentioned more times in the Koran than Muhammad
dyaQ TIL Wounded Warrior Project revenue spends 62% on officer and CEO salaries. Soldiers get the remaining 38%.
5VDEk TIL according to the customs of the Toraja people of Indonesia, the family of a dead person must sacrifice a buffalo. Families that don't already have one or too poor to afford buying a buffalo just assume their dead relatives are just "sick" until they can afford to sacrifice a buffalo.