› added 12 years ago

108

TIL Silversun Pickups are named after a liquor store called Silversun in LA where band members often made late night booze runs

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

v109x TIL that Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win an Oscar (and whose birthday is today), was forced to sit separated from her white co-stars at the 1940 Academy Awards
4XrPa TIL that a material's melting point is the same as its freezing point. These are just different terms for the same thing, it just depends on whether energy is being removed from a substance (freezing) or if energy is being added to a substance (melting).
JYVZk TIL On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype
7rZDL TIL basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal owns 155 Five Guys franchises, nearly 10% of all the Five Guys in existence.
KOZgE TIL - In the mid 19th Century, the belief persisted that weather was completely unpredictable. When one MP suggested in the Commons in 1854 that recent advances in scientific theory might soon allow them to know the weather in London "twenty-four hours beforehand", the House roared with laughter.