› added 1 year ago

85

Til Gilligan's island was only an hour or so from a busy port a 3 hour return trip

Read more lyricsondemand.com

via reddit.com

e0JJ5 TIL that Ireland is ranked 5th in GDP per capita (PPP) and the highest among real countries. The only countries ahead of it are city states: Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Singapore.
BrAkk TIL former trash TV host Jerry Springer is now Judge Jerry Springer, and is indeed an actual civil arbitrator.
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
KOZJa TIL no one wanted to make the Hellboy movie, so Mike Mignola cast Ron Perlman in Blade 2 for the sole purpose of showing that he could play the role of Hellboy.
4XGoJ TIL early sections of San Francisco were built upon ships abandoned by prospectors during the California Gold Rush. Many were intentionally run aground to become bars and hotels. Now, hundreds of wooden ships lay beneath the city streets and a portion of their subway goes through the hull of one.