› added 11 years ago

114

TIL the first person to climb the exterior of the Sear’s Tower did so using suction cups and while wearing a homemade Spiderman suit

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lZrV TIL of Black Bart, the “gentleman robber” of the Wild West, who’d rob stagecoaches, leaving behind poems like: “I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches.”
jNj7R TIL Akihito, the Emperor of Japan, is an scientist and still publishes papers to this day
e0PlE TIL there is a whale whose speech impediment prevents it from communicating with other whales, which got him dubbed "the world's lonliest whale".
b9neE TIL that the number 8 is such a lucky number in China that the Chinese government scheduled the Beijing Olympics to begin 8 seconds after 8:08 on 8/8/2008.
o8o TIL that there’s a village in China where people have blonde hair and fair eyes, and it is believed that a lost Roman Legion might have settled in the village