› added 11 years ago

73

TIL that Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was killed in California by a bomb. Three suspects linked with the Jewish Defense League fled to Israel before they could be arrested.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

PddO TIL that sarcasm is not only possibly indicative of one’s cognitive ability, capacity for abstract thought, and increased creativity, but it also increases creativity in the recipients of the sarcastic remarks.
X06a8 TIL Mel Brooks was the executive producer of David Lynch's The Elephant Man, and gave him final cut, which technically he did not have.
M7jv7 TIL that in 1920, the King of Greece was killed after a monkey bite. King Alexander I was trying to break up a fight between his German Shepherd and a pet monkey on the royal grounds when a second monkey attacked and bit him. The wound became infected, and he died of sepsis three weeks later.
Z8EGv TIL that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of 25-30 year old men
OV1a TIL Weird Al Yankovic asked Nirvana for permission to parody “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and their first question was’“Will it be about food?”.He explained that “Smells Like Nirvana” would be about how nobody could understand their singing, they agreed that it sounded funny and granted permission.