› added 11 years ago

94

TIL Paul McCartney only agreed to be on The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Vegetarian” if she remained a vegetarian the rest of the series…

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

RQbj TIL two men lost an arm in a mass tug-of-war contest in Taiwan. NSFW
rare TIL you cannot chop down trees on your own property in Lake Forest, Chicago because of Mr. T.
okbA TIL that in the North Korean Gulag daily rations amount to less than 500 calories per day, the physically challenged are forced to do hard labor and the death rate is 1,000 to 2,000 per year.
LkB80 TIL in the movie The Godfather, the horse head from the scene where Jack Woltz, played by John Marley, wakes up to find it lying in his bed, is from an actual dead horse. During rehearsals a fake one was used, and Marley wasn't told beforehand, so his screams during the actual shot were genuine.
D1DZg TIL that North Korea has an official news site with an English translation