› added 8 years ago

145

TIL that at the age of 17, Richard Dean Anderson biked 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska.

Read more rdanderson.com

via ift.tt

mxL5x TIL the origin of ‘Mouth Breather’ and ‘Slack Jawed Yokel’ is a dental condition called Lip Incompetance. People have a very hard time keeping their lips together.
16bNV TIL Beastie Boys won a lawsuit for company using their songs "Girls" without permission, then donated all to a charity that is STEM programs for females.
ZV5R TIL learned when the Soviets exhumed Tamerlane’s body in 1941, they found an inscription in his casket that said “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Hitler invaded the USSR two days later
wjWY TIL The worlds most isolated tree, 400 km away from anything, died when a drunk truck driver hit it in 1973.
eQok TIL An underage drunk girl at Chilliest 2015 got herself out of a ticket by winning a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The 3 police officers let the girl go after she beat scissors with rock but they ended up getting in trouble when witnesses posted Vines and the videos went viral.