› added 12 years ago

135

TIL US Marines forced Saddam Hussein to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut while in prison

Read more gawker.com

via reddit.com

GAvxg TIL that in 1979, a song titled “Ready ‘n’ Steady” appeared on a Billboard chart. However, the song was never actually released, and for years, its existence was unconfirmed. In 2016, a researcher used old copyright records to find the record, giving it its first known public exposure.
KOvWB TIL Marilyn Monroe's sister is still alive today at age 100.
GYQLQ TIL that Van Halen stipulated in their performance contracts that a bowl of M&M's, with all of the brown M&M's removed, was to be placed in their dressing room. They didn't do this to be jerks, but as a simple test to see if more important safety and quality specifications were attended to as well.
96br TIL it is illegal to touch a pregnant woman’s belly in Pennsylvania
mjbE TIL North Korea has its own operating system (RED STAR OS) and it looks like Apple’s OS X