› added 8 months ago

25

TIL Gene Siskel once scooped a story from Roger Ebert as Siskel was taking a nap under a conference table at the television station they worked at together, overhearing a telephone conversation Ebert was having with his editor at a rival newspaper.

Read more legacy.aintitcool.com

via reddit.com

n5Kd TIL That England and Wales don’t report murders as murders unless someone is convicted. The US could drop its murder rate by half if it used the same method.
QNWXa TIL Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese fame is also the woman behind Smartfood Popcorn, which originally used the same powdered cheese recipe.
PYWOg TIL the human foot is one of the heaviest sweat producers on the body and contains 250,000 sweat glands. However, these eccrine glands produce sweat of mostly water and salt meant to cool you, and it has very little odor on its own.
4X4gw TIL After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons
16Dmr TIL: There was a Roman pharmacologist named Sextius Niger who wrote that you can increase sexual desire by eating salamanders that were preserved in honey. He was also head of a school of philosophy known as the School of the Sextii which recommended vegetarianism.