› added 11 years ago

207

TIL: Nearly 150 babies were named Khaleesi in 2012.

Read more usatoday.com

via reddit.com

jNP1v TIL former NFL player James Brooks was found to be illiterate when he was unable to read court documents after admitting to not paying over $100k in child support. When the judge asked how he graduated from Auburn without being able to read, he said, "Didn't have to go to to class."
MRV7 TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
b6WBZ TIL Ceaser salad was named after Ceaser Cardini and not Julius Ceaser…
dDQD7 TIL a one-year-old child in Bihar's Bettiah bit a cobra to death and was later hospitalised after falling unconscious but the boy is stable now.
ZYLD TIL that Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of the Chairman of Scientology, David Miscavige, first learned about the story of Xenu from watching the “Trapped in the Closet” episode of South Park.