› added 9 years ago

291

TIL David Bowie had an affair with the mother of Guns N’ Roses guitarist, Slash.

Read more rollingstone.com

via reddit.com

b9E7Q TIL Walter P. Chrysler created two car brands, DeSoto and Fargo, to intimidate the owners of Dodge into selling the company to Chrysler by creating new competition for them.
DdaV TIL Over the past decade, the number of African American men killed on the streets of Oakland nearly matched the number who graduated from its high schools ready to attend a state university.
Q57e TIL that all even numbers (except 2) can be expressed as the sum of 2 prime numbers, a rule known as Goldbach’s Conjecture
OGa97 TIL that when steam locomotives needed to refill their water tanks on long journeys, they would sometimes make use of water troughs built directly on the tracks. The engineers would lower a scoop into the trough as the train drove over it, refilling the tanks without needing to stop.
VNEk TIL that Calvin Coolidge awoke to a burglar in his hotel room, talked the burglar out of robbing him, loaned him $32, and told him how to leave without being arrested