› added 9 years ago

223

TIL that the UK can use nuclear weapons if BBC Radio 4 stops broadcasting.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OG4ea TIL: before the release of the 1989 film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, the famous Al-Khazneh in Jordan was visited by only a few thousand tourists a year. Now, the site is filled with almost a million tourists annually, and has several shops around it relating to Indiana Jones.
Yp4ld TIL that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar only made one 3-point shot in his entire career.
AJL7 TIL American men receive 60% longer Federal prison sentences than women for the same crime.
loRnV TIL: Cassette tapes as a format has been kept alive by a unique demographic, US prison inmates
b69o9 TIL that before the German recording sessions for "She Loves You" and "I Want to hold your Hand", the Beatles refused to show up to the recording studio and had a tea party at their hotel room instead until producer George Martin came over to take them.