› added 9 years ago

260

TIL the ASPCA euthanized a homeless man’s dog without telling him - he only found out when a reporter told him after the dog was killed.

Read more dnainfo.com

via reddit.com

P15wG TIL Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. This ability to multitask with both hands is known as mirror writing.
8adja TIL that the Simpsons character Ned Flanders is named after Flanders Street in Portland Oregon, where the show's creator, Matt Groening grew up.
L9YZ TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem. He declined the Fields medal, $1 million in awards, and later retired from math because he hated the recognition the math community gives to people who prove things
8a9EL TIL about Keith Cutler, a judge summoned to be a juror on a case he was presiding over. When he applied to be excused from jury service he was initially declined, and was told to write to the resident judge, to which he replied: "I am the resident judge."
mxjE TIL That Clint Eastwood turned down a request to support George Bush Sr. during the 1992 Presidintial campaign He told an interviewer the next year, “I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid”.