› added 11 years ago

490

TIL that Don King was charging Tyson 8k a week for towels

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

e000b TIL that in July 2014 a German tourist got into a fight while in Bulgaria. Following advise not to fly he said goodbye to his friends and booked a hotel. A day later he started acting strangely and was last seen running out of Varna airport and climbing a fence, his whereabouts are still unknown.
awl50 TIL: Genghis Khan had the greatest positive impact on the environment of this planet, his murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people, which actually helped scrub about 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
awvP0 TIL the bite from a Lone Star tick can cause a person to be allergic to meat.
BPJk TIL: Angeline Jolie once hired a hitman to murder her so she would have less guilt to burden her family with. The hitman asked her to reconsider her decision for a month - to which she then changed her mind.
Vky0 TIL that if the Andromeda Galaxy were visible to the naked eye, it would be six times larger than the moon in the night sky