› added 11 years ago

66

TIL Dr. Donald Unger only cracked the knuckles on his left hand every day for more than 60 years. Both hands remained unharmed, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine, a parody of the actual award.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

KYObw TIL that buildings so big they "need their own ZIP code" are very much real, however this is not due to the actual size of the buildings themselves, rather it's the sheer volume of mail they receive. One example is the Walmart Headquarters, which has a unique ZIP code of 72716.
b1D4 TIL 90% of Native Americans have no issue with the name “Washington Redskins”
5Vew9 TIL that Titanic crewman Herbert Pitman made an attempt to row his lifeboat over to rescue people in the water, but was overruled by the other occupants of the boat, who were worried about people swarming them and duly complied. Pitman said that this haunted him throughout his life.
eXPL TIL ‘Carmen 16’ is a poem written by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) that is considered so sexually explicit it wasn’t published in English until the late 20th century. It is considered one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin, or any language, for that matter.
wL6Z6 TIL Bob Marley moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.