› added 5 years ago

129

TIL That Jimmy Dean, country singer, TV host, and entrepreneur introduced The Muppet's to mainstream audiences. He turned down a large stake of Jim Henson's company stating he hadn't "earned it". He also believed he was a terrible actor and musician, and went on to create The Jimmy Dean Meat Co.

Read more biography.com

via reddit.com

py6b TIL that for over a century (colonial times-WWII) May 1st was ‘Moving Day’ in New York when tenants along with their belongings abandoned their abodes to criss-cross the city in mass migration to fresh dwellings.
Z87rv TIL that if you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe.
4KGa TIL when a man asked Xerxes to exempt his eldest son from serving in the army, he had the young man cut in half and ordered his army to march between his two parts
wLMV8 TIL when John Balson started off as a butcher in Dorset in 1535, Henry VIII was on the throne. Hundreds of years later, the Balson family continues to trade just a few streets away from where their first market stall was set up in Bridport. They are the oldest family business in UK.
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US