Home
Random
Trending
Today
11
posts added
Search
› added
7 years ago
104
TIL J.R.R. Tolkien is credited with inventing Orcs.
Read more
wikipedia.org
via
reddit.com
nWjPW
TIL of a Spokane fraudster who ran a car accident insurance fraud scheme that involved many conspirators. He would fake car crashes that involved ramming the cars himself, inflicting injuries on selected fake victims, with them even carrying bottles of urine to pour over themselves for the act.
Ly1V
TIL that the Square-Cube Law explains why today’s large ships cannot be powered by sails, why babies are more susceptible to cold, and why the “helicarriers” in super hero movies like The Avengers are physically impossible.
VBWOm
TIL that Phoenix is the most populated state capital and Montpelier is the least in the USA. The Arizona capital has over two hundred times the population of Vermont’s capital.
wjZY
TIL Lurch from a The Addams Family was originally supposed to be mute, but “You rang?” was ad-libbed and the producers thought it was so funny that they wrote more lines for the character.
GYQME
TIL that people spend about 6 years of a typical lifetime dreaming. We also cannot dream and snore at the same time.