› added 10 years ago

65

TIL John Matuszak known as Sloth from “The Goonies” was a #1 Overall Pick in the NFL Draft and won 2 Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yZ0a TIL that a 1969 SciFi novel accurately predicted the current state of world affairs of 2010 including a popular leader called President Obomi
Kk9R TIL that Johnny Carson, on the Tonight Show, had an ongoing gag involving the effort to find the line that’s least likely to ever be uttered. He settled finally on, “This is the banjo player’s Porsche.”
7Mop TIL a prison inmate, Eugene Debs, received nearly one million votes during the 1920 presidential election. He was serving 10 years for a speech he gave in Ohio.
69P4W TIL: A genetic study, published in 2020, revealed Tutankhamun had the haplogroups YDNA R1b, which originated in western Asia and which today makes up 50–60% of the genetic pool of modern Europeans
KOoYQ TIL that disabled employees are often stalked and secretly filmed by their insurance carriers