› added 5 years ago

316

TIL that pigs are cannibalistic towards piglets, largely due to hormonal fluctuations among gilts.

Read more thepigsite.com

via reddit.com

Km94 TIL Oscar, the character from The Office, was not originally intended to be gay. This choice was inspired by an early episode in which he wore a pink shirt.
d0p8 TIL of Vexations, a piano piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, that takes roughly 18 hours to play and one man who attempted to solo it quit after 15 hours because he was hallucinating.
wLBv7 TIL That smiling in public is frowned upon in Russian culture. Excessive smiling is seen as a sign of dishonesty, insincerity, or even stupidity. Russians also tend to not smile in photographs for this reason.
lBdK TIL 500,00 Americans faced a low-tech Y2K when they pre-ordered headstones with “19-” inscribed for their death date, then lived past the year 2000.
jYDn TIL in 2010 the owner of Segway Inc. died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.