› added 5 years ago

139

Today I learned Dawson's Creek is Blacker than 90210, What's Blacker? Episode 1

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

PLkJ TIL that Russell Brand was fired from MTV for dressing up like Osama Bin Laden the day after 9/11.
9YRKG TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.
Bg48b TIL that when IBM tasked Bill Gates with the creation of a OS for their computer Gates didn't have one nor he knew how to make one, so he bought one (DOS) from a local company for $75k, hired an engineer to adapt it to IBM machines and sold it for millions to IBM without ever writing a line of code.
R7VJa TIL The Alamo was fought over slavery. Texas settlers wanted to keep slaves after Vicente Guerrero, the black president of Mexico, fought for and abolished slavery. But Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston hatched a plan to take Texas from Mexico to create a slave state.
VMd0m TIL that the US has less population than Europe, and even the population-rich states are smaller than large European countries