› added 10 years ago

117

TIL The CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pErb TIL that in 1963 Harry Truman wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post criticizing the CIA, which he created, for becoming increasingly sinister and casting a shadow over the image the US was trying to project to the world.
16Wd4 TIL that the world record for most number of monogamous marriages is held by Glynn Wolfe - he married 31 times (with one marriage being annulled) and had approximately 19 children.
bNP0 TIL the Aston Martin Vulcan can produce more than it’s own body weight in downforce, theoretically allowing it to drive upside down on a ceiling
d8X08 TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
dvDE TIL the 1992 video for Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” was ultimately successful in finding 26 out of the 36 missing children featured in the US, UK, and Australia, and not all of those stories had happy endings.