Home
Random
Trending
Today
14
posts added
Search
› added
12 years ago
88
TIL IMDB is over 22 years old, and it started on USENET
Read more
wikipedia.org
via
reddit.com
y48e
TIL the makers of the board game Monopoly will set up a hotline for a few days over the holiday period to help mediate any game-based arguments.
X0OaX
TIL That the last Civil War pension was paid in 2020 to the daughter of a soldier who fought for both the Confederacy and Union.
mxvWO
TIL that the Russians partied so hard after the end of WW2 was announced that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka.
9wA56
Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.
kJ70m
TIL about some of the names given to gene mutations bred into fruit flies by scientists. Cheap Date is a gene that increases susceptibility to alcohol, the Van Gogh gene produces swirling of hair on the wings and the Swiss Cheese gene produces holes in the brain.