› added 12 years ago

202

TIL In ancient Rome the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster.

Read more listverse.com

via bit.ly

yvwX TIL the author of “I Am Legend” and the creator of “Bill & Ted” are father and son.
Me5jm TIL that Ernest Hemingway worked for the KGB, tracked Nazi U-Boats from his fishing boat in Cuba, got charged with war crimes while leading a French militia against the Nazis, and had a six toed cat (marked as NSFW for other information provided in link)
gNjX TIL that H&R Block owns the trademark for the GIF file format.
R5D07 TIL Pythagoras was supposedly the first person to call the heavens, the cosmos, for in his eyes, this celestial ocean embodied perfection, and was intricately adorned with infinite beauty and animated life. And he was also the first to call himself a philosopher. In fact, he coined the term.
Eg0Z7 TIL that Scooby-Doo has starred in 14 separate animated TV series since 1969