› added 7 months ago

54

TIL the man responsible for bringing us seasonal joy as Dancing Pumpkin Man is actor and comedian Matt Geiler

Read more cbc.ca

via reddit.com

NQpb TIL that there are more current members of the United States Senate that were born before World War 2 started (11) than were born after the first Moon landing (6)
oLMA TIL Hollywood father-son duo Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are only 12 years apart in age.
Ln5p TIL That the Ichneumonidae, a species of wasp that laid it’s young in a live host, made Charles Darwin lose faith in a “benevolent God”
x0vw TIL JFK commanded a 19 Year old intern to perform oral sex on a white house aide.
e0X4J TIL After Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 US presidential election, he tried to change 'Hoover Dam' back to it's original name: 'Boulder (Canyon) Dam', but by then the name 'Hoover Dam' was too popular with Americans, and 'Boulder Dam' failed to catch on.