› added 5 months ago

77

TIL that Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer for a circus when he was 16 years old.

Read more collider.com

via reddit.com

ne0Wb TIL that in the past 20 years there has been 250,000,00 votes cast by mail-in vote and only 0.000006% were considered fraud (143 over 20 years)
oBO0E TIL: Wreaths Across America was started by the same family that owns a wreath manufacturer, Worcester Wreath. 75-80% of Worcester Wreath's business is supplying wreaths to the charity though an essentially no-bid contract.
e0Nmn TIL: Kokomo isn’t a real place.
6Z0X TIL that under a secret, Navy-funded project, WWII scientists actually tried to turn sharks into living remote-controlled suicide bombers.
6EJBX TIL There was a mega tsunami in Alaska in 2015. It was triggered by a landslide and the resulting wave was almost 200 meters tall at its highest. It struck an uninhabited area with no people present and went unnoticed for several hours until scientists in New York noticed it on seismograph readings