› added 11 years ago

180

TIL that Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is about the negative effects of the Vietam War on Americans, but is often misunderstood to be a patriotic or nationalistic anthem

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7wpP TIL The “E” in Chuck E. Cheese stands for Entertainment. Charles Entertainment Cheese.
e0wL6 TIL that an engineer at NASA spent 15 years trying to become an astronaut and was rejected 14 times before finally being selected in 1998.
kgem TIL Alamo Drafthouse once used an angry voicemail from a kicked-out texter as marketing material, promoting their serious moviegoing image
Wkg6N TIL that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital receives most of its funding from American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities. Both were founded by Danny Thomas, as second generation Lebanese American.
D1EWe TIL that Steve Jobs would lease the same model of Mercedes every six months so he wouldn't have to put license plates on his car