› added 9 years ago

571

TIL a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor and moved the global oil price.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R7PMa TIL 100 square miles of LA are surrounded by a religious physical wall called an "eruv" which symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath, such as carrying babies.
bGN9 TIL That the word phoney comes from the name for an Irish scam called “Fawney Ring” In which someone is sold a fake golden ring
1PPX TIL that the current Donkey Kong character is not the same as the villain that appeared in the 1980’s arcade games. The original DK is the character now known as Cranky Kong.
xJLB TIL J.R.R Tolkien wrote 13 pages of a sequel to Lord of the Rings called The New Shadow, but abandoned it.
p87R8 TIL in 2013 a quadriplegic man was awarded $8,000 for a lawsuit filed against Disney for an incident in which he was stuck on “It’s a Small World” for 30 minutes.