› added 9 years ago

79

TIL astronauts vote from space

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8ab18 TIL that many scientists believe that there is a 'mean gene' that is passed down through families and that there are four categories of meanness. Some scientists believe that this will eventully go away via evolution.
W7xxX TIL Boston had a horse-drawn railway system that predated its current subway in the 1850s
n8KW TIL When That 70s Show started, the directors required all actors to be 18 or older. Mila Kunis, 14 at the time, told the casting directors she would be 18 but did not say when. Ashton Kutcher, Kunis’ boyfriend in the show, was 20 years old at that time.
M7V7A TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
XEPQD TIL that there are chemicals so dangerous and deadly even the nazis said Nah