› added 13 years ago

105

TIL the USA exported $124,021,998 worth of dairy cow semen in 2011.

Read more naab-css.org

via reddit.com

xVeo5 TIL that The Sex Pistols were asked by their manager to write a song called "Submission", hoping they would write about bondage. Instead they wrote a song about a submarine mission.
W7r4B TIL that in 1998, celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo broke into singer Paul Young's house and served 2 years in prison as a result. Years later he called Young to apologize; Young accepted the apology and suggested D'Acampo invite him to his new restaurant to make it up to him.
wLNe1 TIL: Street food in Vietnam is so available, fast and cheap that international fast food chains like McDonald’s flopped after entering
EoQw TIL environmental activist group Greenpeace once accidentally released a fact sheet which said “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]”.
rROby TIL that future John Wick director Chad Stahelski doubled for his friend Brandon Lee following Lee's death on the set of The Crow. The two had the same martial arts instructor, Dan Inosanto.