› added 9 months ago

44

TIL: At no point in the 1960s magazine profile "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" does the writer actually speak to—or interact with—Frank Sinatra

Read more esquire.com

via reddit.com

nW6jY Today I learned that Action Park had a water slide with an actual loop-the-loop that actually worked (although it was rarely operated for obvious reasons.)
j6oZp TIL Of the vegetable lamb of tartary. How northern Europeans explained cotton in the middle ages.
Wk0pB TIL One bee will only make 1/12 of a teaspoon on honey in its entire life, and that Bees are the only insect in the world that make food that people can eat.
VxpZ TIL In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.
0wBOM TIL: When the Bible was translated to Kiribati (Gilbertese), there was difficulty translating the word "mountain". Kiribati did not have a word for a mountain because there are no mountains in Kiribati.