› added 8 years ago

300

TIL that PS2 owners in Brazil can stream Netflix to their console

Read more playstationlifestyle.net

via ift.tt

J1lEV TIL when Steven Spielberg reenrolled at Cal State in 2001 under a pseudonym in order to earn a degree in Film and Electronic Arts, he was able to use Jurassic Park to pass paleontology and Schindler's List to pass advanced filmmaking.
Y7ZXZ TIL when Emperor Ferdinand was told his subjects were starting a revolution, he asked “But are they allowed to do that?” He abdicated later that year.
P1Njw TIL the first person to circumnavigate the earth may have been Enrique of Malacca, a slave of Magellan who started his journey in Malaysia.
0dROp TIL The sign commemorating Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was killed in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi, had to be replaced with a bulletproof one because it had been repeatedly vandalized—first stolen, then shot at, then shot at again leaving it riddled with bullet holes
nMno TIL that many mistakenly believe that suicide by overdosing on Paracetamol renders them unconscious before death ensues, when in fact it is a lengthy and very painful process that could take up to a week.