› added 8 years ago

263

TIL Alexander the Great once asked Diogenes, a homeless Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel, if there was something he could do for him. Diogenes replied “yes, get out of my sun”. Alexander left saying, “If I wasn’t Alexander, I’d like to be Diogenes.”

mxDlM TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was a follower of Gandhi and believed in the non violence method to get rid of oppression.
eppwL TIL that the average human excretes 6,500 gallons of mucus in a lifetime.
mxW9R TIL minarets (the towers of mosques) are banned in Switzerland
78VWx TIL microwaving a grape will make plasma
KO0W9 TIL the actors who played the king and queen in Coming to America also played the king and queen in The Lion King.