Home
Random
Trending
Today
31
posts added
Search
› added
4 years ago
50
TIL It's impossible to sneeze while you're dreaming.
Read more
wikipedia.org
via
reddit.com
4D6N
TIL Gandhi received a British medal for helping to suppress black South Africans, said that Hitler was “not a bad man”, and disallowed his wife from taking penicillin for pneumonia, from which she then died (he was against “alien medicine”). Later, he “allowed doctors to save his life with quinine”.
Oog0R
TIL that Stephen Pruitt has made more than 2,500,000 edits to Wikipedia articles (he's edited a third of Wikipedia's nearly 5.7 million pages) and has generated more than 31,000 original articles in the past 13 years.
epyK4
TIL the characters "Perry the Platypus" and "Knuckles the Echidna" do represent the only two families in the monotremata order. Which means Platypus and Echidna are the only two families of egg-laying mammals on Earth.
rRjbe
TIL Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash auditioned to be a member of The Monkees, and when they turned him down he recommended his friend Peter Tork.
P1QxV
TIL Kansas City, the city whose NFL team just won the Superbowl, isn't even located in the state of Kansas but the capital of Missouri instead.