› added 7 years ago

207

TIL: The card game Cards against humanity bought an island to preserve wildlife, it was named "Hawaii 2"

Read more pressherald.com

via reddit.com

ne1MP TIL George Lucas didn’t want Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones because he didn’t want them to become known as a pair like DeNiro and Scorsese. Lucas and Spielberg thought Tom Selleck was perfect for the part but he had already filmed the pilot “Magnum P.I.” and couldn’t get out of the contract
8KRL TIL an identity thief stole the identity of a surgeon and while aboard a Navy destroyer was tasked with performing several life saving surgeries. He proceeded to memorize a medical textbook just before hand and all the patients survived.
O0rX TIL In the early 1960s, the US military dispersed 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit around the Earth, in a failed attempt at creating an artificial ionosphere to improve radio communication. Many of the needles are still up there today.
e0JdE TIL that some people in Japan believe that a much loved Japanese baseball team is cursed by the KFC co-founder, Colonel Sanders after his statue was thrown into a river by the team's fans. This is known as "Curse of the Colonel"
e6dn TIL the South Korean government demands that big-box retailers, like Tesco and Costco, be closed two Sundays a month in an effort to support small businesses and mom-and-pop vendors.