› added 11 years ago

76

TIL that “the best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying the magazine every month.”

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OG7x4 TIL NBA Champion Jason Williams won a national high school basketball championship with Super Bowl champion Randy Moss
KO9Qa TIL That after Steve Irwin died, a number of stingrays were found mutilated on Australian beaches. It was believed they had been killed out of some misaimed retribution by people who blamed the animal for causing his death.
eL6E TIL Soldiers in the U.S. military’s psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn’t win by calling them,”lady men” and “cowardly dogs” and also air dropped propaganda leaflets.
78WAO TIL - According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress
woMN6 TIL that the term "canola oil" a contraction of “Canada” and “oil“, was a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, "rapeseed oil"