› added 8 years ago

1051

TIL that Yukon Cornelius, the prospector from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, wasn’t searching for “silver and gold” but a peppermint mine.

Read more christmas-specials.wikia.com

via ift.tt

wLm8 TIL: Printer ink costs over seven times more than Dom Perignon vintage champagne per millilitre.
VMENQ TIL of Chinese folklore's "Pixiu", a creature that was banished from the heavens for being unruly--; It was spanked by the Jade Emperor so hard that its butthole was sealed, leaving it cursed to a diet of gold, silver, and jewels but unable to expel any of it.
166ND TIL there was an exponential increase in childhood cancer in Mexico due to the purchase of tons of milk from Ireland, which were contaminated due to the radioactivity caused by the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
rRlA0 TIL that some US $1 bills minted from 1992 to 1996 can be worth up to $1300 because they were printed using a different method.