› added 6 years ago

246

TIL CBS’ online business carries a D- BBB rating for exploiting predatory practices that make it extremely difficult to cancel subscriptions, refusing refunds, and participating in misleading advertising aimed at signing up new customers through free trials

Read more bbb.org

via reddit.com

7mBx TIL a teacher in Queens resigned after an investigation revealed he’d used 11 sick days to compete in professional wrestling matches, once on a televised “SmackDown!” match against Kurt Angle.
XEWpD TIL in 2013, Neil Gaiman performed a reading of “A Christmas Carol” using Charles Dickinson’s personal copy that he used specifically for live readings, complete with notes and directions, in full victorian costume. The performance was recorded (audio only) and subsequently released online. Enjoy!
RY41 TIL During WW2 the British had a plan to assassinate Hitler but didn’t go through with it as he was a terrible strategist and whoever replaced him would have been better at fighting the allies
gMnNW TIL Jackie Stallone, the mother of Sylvester Stallone, is an astrologer and an experienced rumpologist, a pseudoscience wich consist of reading the past and future on a person's buttocks.
1a98P TIL Christopher Columbus hanged, burned, or cut the hands off of hundreds of thousands of Caribbean natives for their failure to bring him a bell full of gold on an island with little to no gold. Thousands committed suicide to avoid his punishments.