› added 12 years ago

125

TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.

Read more washingtonpost.com

via reddit.com

j6Brn TIL the current and the first president of Barbados is a woman (Sandra Mason) after Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic and the current prime minister of Barbados is also woman (Mia Mottley)
b6EvN TIL David Miscavige has only given one publicly televised interview in his 38 years as Scientology's leader. It was in February 1992, in a 72-minute segment with Ted Koppel on Nightline.
6E7Zw TIL that an itch on the left side of the body can be relieved by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of the body (and vice versa)
wLr0E TIL that AstroTurf was originally called ChemGrass and was renamed after the Astrodome in Houston which was the first major sports venue to install artificial turf.
X0Gxk TIL: About Buried Treasure, an "adult cartoon" made in the United States circa 1928/1929. It depicts the sexual adventures of Eveready Harton, who has a comically oversized phallus. Over the course of the movie; Eveready has a variety of sexual relations with a woman, a man, a donkey and a cow.