› added 9 years ago

277

TIL that it snows metal on Venus

Read more popularmechanics.com

via reddit.com

9YmAB TIL despite Theodore Roosevelt giving his name to the “Teddy Bear” after refusing to kill one, his sons Kermit and Theodore Jr. are the first westerners to have shot a Giant Panda.
JYM7j TIL that David Grohl refused to have his band's music on Glee. "The guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his fcking show," said Grohl. "Fck that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee."
BrxQL TIL that in 1874, a book titled "Shadows from the Walls of Death" was published that warned about the use of poisonous arsenic dyes in wallpaper, and the book contained specimens of the wallpaper. The book was so toxic that all but four copies have been destroyed.
VMn90 TIL that tigers are the most revenge-seeking animals on Earth.
M7Jx8 TIL when Senator Harrison of Mississippi's campaign manager asked Senator Bilbo of Mississippi to support Harrison for Senate Majority Leader, Bilbo said that Harrison had to ask him personally. Harrison replied that he wouldn't talk to Bilbo even if it meant the Presidency. Harrison lost by 1 vote.