› added 3 years ago

197

TIL Kokomo is not a real place, the Beach Boys made it up. The song was created for the 1988 Tom Cruise film Cocktail

Read more sun-sentinel.com

via reddit.com

1a1DV TIL That on modern cars there is a little arrow on the fuel gauge to help you when it's time to refuel. It tells you which side of the vehicle has the fuel tank and filler cap.
KONra TIL the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster could have been even more catastrophic, but 2000 workers at the sister Fukushima II Plant succeeded in stabilizing their reactors and achieving cold shut down.
AD9Gg TIL an elderly man gained the trust of a Belgian bank by bringing the workers chocolates. He was eventually given VIP access to the bank vault. In 2007, he stole $28 million worth of diamonds and vanished.
rRW1w TIL that orcas have been targeting great whites, putting them into tonic immobility, and eating their livers.
7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.