› added 5 years ago

410

TIL in 1964 the Rolling Stones wrote and performed a jingle for a Rice Krispies commercial.

Read more snopes.com

via reddit.com

6EjRX TIL Christopher Columbus' efforts to obtain support for his voyages were hampered not by belief in a flat Earth but by valid worries that the East Indies were farther than he realized. In fact, Columbus grossly underestimated the Earth's circumference and caused he and his crew's near starvation.
O4JR TIL the Bat'leth (a Klingon sword from Star Trek) is classified as a weapon and has been used in several real-world crimes
Oo6j6 TIL God of War (2018) was done in a single shot with no loading screens or fade-to-black between gameplay and cutscenes.
KYkAw TIL The Beatles, as we know them today, were only together for 8 years (1962 to 1970). In this time they released a staggering 13 studio albums, totaling 213 songs, with over 100 more being released since their break up
YpDlB TIL that the first person to see human chromosomes through a microscope made a counting error, and published a paper in 1923 stating that there were 24 pairs of them. The error remained widely accepted as a scientific fact for 33 years until it was corrected.