› added 8 years ago

126

TIL Cuba has a vast no-Internet file-sharing network with terabytes of regularly-updated movies, television, music, and software delivered by USB drives over sneakernet for $2/week subscription fees

Read more vox.com

via reddit.com

5YW8n TIL Janet Jackson gifted Larry King a pair of suspenders with open holes around the nipples. "I wore them once, they were cute."
pY6w8 TIL 'Steve Jobs' is the name of an Italian clothing company created in 2012 when the creators realized that Apple never trademarked Jobs' name.
neYpY TIL that Emma of Normandy married both Æthelred the Unready, the King of the English, and Cnut the Great, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard who overthrew Æthelred. Her sons by each, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, each became king of England.
VMejQ TIL that The Blade Runner Director's Cut only exists because a Warner Bros. executive accidentally gave a theater Scott's personal cut which he had left in a screening room. His cut garnered critical acclaim prompting Warner Bros. to allow him to make an official version.
XvZX TIL when the Vanessa Williams Miss America scandal was breaking, Hugh Hefner was offered the nude photos. He turned them down saying “There was never any question of our interest. But they clearly weren’t authorized and because they would cause considerable embarrassment, we decided not to publish.”