› added 12 years ago

147

TIL The Economist named Hank Hill as one of the wisest people on television.

Read more economist.com

via reddit.com

l7lAA TIL, that Lieutenant Elmo Zumwalt III contracted cancer and died at 42, after getting exposed to Agent Orange while deployed in Vietnam. It was his father, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt who ordered the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
b6kW9 TIL the 2008 song “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’bama” became a minor hit in the Irish market
oBddR TIL that we can’t taste as well at high altitude.
4X0P6 TIL that our solar system's planet configuration is quite unusual and that it is more common for extrasolar planetary systems to have larger planets close to their suns, as opposed to our solar system which has small terrestial planets closer in, followed by the gas giants further away
E1v9p TIL when Consumer Reports tested the Olympic WaterGuard wood stain, the product was so bad that it "didn’t take to the wood at all.".