› added 12 years ago

96

TIL before his success, James Franco would practice different accents on the customers he served at McDonald’s

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

awY5b TIL that moldy bread was used to treat infected wounds more than 2000 years ago in ancient China, Greece, Serbia and Egypt.
6yLZ TIL that there’s a Justice League comic in which a superhero assassinates a Saddam Hussein analogue in order to end the atrocities of his regime. His actions actually end up destabilizing the country, making the quality of life for citizens much worse than it was before. The comic came out in 1999.
ne7lo TIL There Are 2 Pieces of Aluminum from the Destroyed World Trade Center on the Surface of Mars. They were quietly built into 2 of the Mars Rovers.
Bgvkk TIL that in ancient Greece, men had to go to the gym completely naked. These spaces were exclusively for men, and exercising in the nude was meant to promote the appreciation of the male physique as a tribute to the gods.
4dpN TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.