› added 8 years ago

150

TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”

Read more abcnews.go.com

via reddit.com

QNMbM TIL The creater of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax, didn't celebrate Christmas because the holiday was too pagan for him.
yRDp TIL a rigorous experiment found that non-celiac gluten sensitivity probably doesn’t exist and instead patients were experiencing a ‘nocebo’ effect.
6QaQ TIL that Mexican drug cartels kidnap innocent people and force them to fight to the death in gladiatorial combat
9wpV7 TIL JFK experienced chronic back pain. He underwent 4 back operations, including a discectomy, an instrumentation and fusion, and 2 minor surgeries that failed to improve his pain.
98OX TIL that the number of calories consumed by a beef cow in its lifetime is enough energy to launch itself out of a cannon at > escape velocity