Home
Random
Trending
Today
66
posts added
Search
› added
10 years ago
72
TIL 80% of black smokers smoke menthols
Read more
wikipedia.org
via
reddit.com
XERjD
TIL: In 1996, a man broke into a radio station in New Zealand held the staff hostage and made them play Kermit's Rainbow Connection non stop.
jNXln
TIL Union Pacific train operators once faced a real life "trolley problem" when 30 of its cars broke loose during a switching operation and headed at high speed without breaks toward downtown Los Angeles -- and decided to derail them on a side track, destroying two homes and injuring 13 people
8am6L
TIL that during the initial theatrical run of E.T. Steven Spielberg earned $500,000 a day from his share of the profits.
xXWg
TIL that Thomas de Mahy last words before being guillotined were, ‘I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.’
1X78
TIL Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.