› added 8 years ago

140

TIL: the U.S. captive tiger population of 5,000 exceeds the total world population of wild tigers.

Read more worldwildlife.org

via reddit.com

4k8ao TIL Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was excelling at cooking by age 7. When he was 6, his father died, and his mother had to go to work at a canning factory for days at a time, requiring Sanders to care for his two younger siblings, including the family cooking.
OoPBR TIL that South Koreans PAY to go to prison in order to escape their busy lives and get time for themselves.
QN0We TIL That Martha’s Vineyard native Craig Kingsbury, was hired by Spielberg while filming Jaws on the island to help Robert Shaw talk and act like Quint, "a fish pier low life, a filthy wharf rat”
YLKd TIL The US Chamber of Commerce isn’t a Federal Agency, but a massive lobby group.
jNajn TIL that women are far more likely to kill people they know, and to do so by the stereotypical techniques (for women, at least) of poisoning and asphyxiation.