› added 10 years ago

245

TIL that after comedian Bill Hicks’ set was edited out of The Late Show With David Letterman in ‘93, he wrote a 39-page letter detailing exactly what happened behind the scenes.

Read more newyorker.com

via reddit.com

9GRM TIL Samsung originally sold noodles . It wasn’t until 1970 that they started selling electronics.
NeV1 TIL that the myth of the Griffin probably began when fossils of Protoceratops skulls were found in gold mines near ancient Greece.
e0AGk TIL that Bhutan is the only Carbon negative country in the world.
aPVb TIL Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad’s first word upon setting foot on the Moon was “Whoopee!” in order to win a $500 bet with an Italian journalist that NASA didn’t script astronaut declarations.
bvyp TIL that a language dies every 14 days