› added 10 years ago

267

TIL When we install the Facebook app they have permission to read our texts…

Read more play.google.com

via reddit.com

loJGV TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth. Years later, he got a visit from a biographer walking in his bike shop. The biographer asked him about his son who he had never heard of up until that moment, Jeff Bezos.
0wD8j TIL The actor who played "Flounder" in Animal House, Stephen Furst, was a pizza delivery boy in Hollywood when he landed the role. He taped a photo of himself inside the lid of each pizza he delivered in the hopes of being discovered.
KO5xQ TIL: The Byzantines themselves never stopped calling themselves Romans till the very fall of the empire. After the crowning of Charlemagne as emperor in 800, they were keen on viewing Byzantium as a Greek empire. But they s felt rather angry when they were called Greeks and not Roman.
nWKyP TIL that a restaurant chain in Missouri and Alabama is known for throwing bread rolls to its customers. In 2015, they were sued by a customer who claimed to have suffered permanent eye damage from a thrown roll. The restaurant admitted it was not the first time such a thing had happened.
awaL9 TIL: Madonna's "Like A Virgin" hit (1984) was written by 2 men, suggested/presented to Madonna by a man, and produced by a man.. But has become the optime of female Empowerment and sexuality and one the most "female" pop hits ever