› added 1 month ago

13

TIL: James Carter received a $20,000 royalty check for a song in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" that he had sung 40 years earlier but didn't remember.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VBWl0 TIL in the 1870s William Shanks spent 15 years of his life calculating pi to 707 places by hand. However, the last few years were wasted as he made a mistake after the 527th digit.
WkREN TIL that the lyrics of the English-language version of Peter Schilling's 1983 song "Major Tom" have almost nothing to do with the original German lyrics.
5Y6EB TIL that the swiss have enough bunkers to house the entire countries population fake houses with artillery in them, and bridges that are rigged to blow.
VM6oQ TIL that a cat was arrested by the Thai police for breaking quarantine regulations.
vVjB TIL In order to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States, the statue had to be broken down into 350 individual pieces and placed through 214 crates in just under a year after the completion