› added 7 years ago

129

TIL that the unit of one mile comes from "a thousand paces" (mille passus)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYWe8 TIL In 1996 a parody of the video game Myst was released. It was titled Pyst, and starred John Goodman.
k511 TIL that prior to creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams appeared in two Monty Python sketches, the first being episode 42.
NY58 TIL that in 1893 geologist and explorer Major John Wesley Powell told the Los Angeles International Irrigation Congress, “Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” He was booed out of the hall.
4XeNw TIL: Kelsey Grammar's daughter is the voice actor of 'Summer' in rick and morty.
w4Lo TIL that Nicholas Cage was on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook from 1991 to 2003