› added 8 years ago

104

TIL Watermelon originated in Africa

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oBNW7 TIL when shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Pan’s Labyrinth received a 22-minute standing ovation.
VyEG TIL In 1720, stock speculation caused the value of shares for the South Sea Company to jump from£128 in January to £1000 in August. When the bubble burst, it financially ruined their investors. One investor, Sir Isaac Newton lost £20,000, equivalent to about £268 million in present day value.
neDwo TIL that when Thomas Edison was on his death bed, Henry Ford reportedly made an odd request for his ailing friend and asked Edison's son Charles to collect Edison's last breath and later 8 test tubes were discovered apparently with 'his last breath'.
1abQO TIL that Colonel Sanders of KFC fame wore only his trademark white suit in public for the last 20 years of his life
YpddZ TIL that according to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”