› added 5 years ago

767

TIL people from Indiana are known as “Hoosiers”

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

R5krw TIL while writing "The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck borrowed from the notes of Sanora Babb without her knowledge. She was using the notes for her own book, which was then shelved by the publisher, and finally published in 2004
y7jM TIL The CEO of Netflix offered form a partnership with Blockbuster in the late 90s and the CEO of Blockbuster laughed in his face.
Kko6 TIL that Conan’s ex-drummer and Slipknot’s current drummer are father and son (Max & Jay Weinberg).
M7O08 TIL about Roman Vomitorium's, a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance i.e. to spew out of a venue. They were not rooms dedicated for feasts for people to binge and purge.
Bb9L TIL that the sexual attraction to mid-to-late adolescents, ages 15-19, is called ephebophilia and not pedophilia and is considered scientifically natural.