› added 2 years ago

263

TIL JC Penney was founded as a frontier store in Wyoming

Read more britannica.com

via reddit.com

x6r8w TIL that Beatrice Straight won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and only appeared in the film for 5 minutes.
5YDmD TIL of The Irish Sweepstakes, est. 1930, which sold lottery tickets internationally to fund Irish hospitals, and prizes won via horse races. The US, where gambling was illegal at the time, bought the most tickets.
Me86B TIL in 1999 the Natural Law Party claimed that they could end the fighting in Kosovo by sending meditators and yogic flyers to the Balkans and generating a "peaceful consciousness". In fact, they managed to send a group of volunteers to Croatia to meditate there.
GYneE TIL Major League Baseball (MLB) grants a lifetime pass for free admission to MLB games for life to any player, manager, coach or umpire with at least eight years of MLB experience. MLB is the only major pro-sports league that has such a program.
5YgNQ TIL I learned that Sharknado was made with a fake name called “Dark Skies,” to get actors to sign on. After they learned it was Sharknado, they all tried to quit.