› added 11 years ago

86

TIL that Samsung contested Apple’s IPad patent by pointing out that the iPad first appeared in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Read more cleverdonkey.com

via reddit.com

xpRw TIL that the world’s most expensive hot dog costs $169 USD. It contains, “ A 12-inch smoked cheese bratwurst topped with butter-teriyaki grilled onions, maitake mushrooms, wagyu beef, foie gras, shaved black truffles, caviar and Japanese mayo on a brioche bun” -quote from article
VBkP0 TIL Charles “Black Bart” Boles was an American outlaw who committed 28 successful stage coach robberies entirely on foot between 1875 and 1883, as he was afraid of horses. He also reportedly never once fired a weapon during his years as an outlaw.
Ld7Z TIL in 2003 Norway became the first country to impose a gender quota. The law stated that at least 40 percent of a company’s board must be female or else it would be shut down.
epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.
gMJG4 TIL Swaziland changed it's name to eSwatini in 2018 in part because the country's name was often confused with Switzerland