› added 10 years ago

293

TIL that Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin together.

Read more scaruffi.com

via reddit.com

0d94v TIL about the case of Doe vs Moe in which a man sued his ex-girlfriend for negligence after she “landed awkwardly on the plaintiff [during sex] thereby causing him to suffer a penile fracture”. He lost.
yQp8w TIL Billy Reina, a German footbal player, had a clause in his contract that stated that his club Arminia Bielefeld should build a new house for him every year he played for them. The contract did not specify 'house' so the club gifted him each new year a Lego house.
y6lV TIL that a white guy from Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records twice for having the best selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history.
rR4xd TIL that Vincent Van Gogh didn’t start to paint until the age of 28 and only started drawing at the age of 26. In the 9 years, until his death at 37, he painted over 800 paintings.
LkmWp TIL that the World Rubik's Cube Championships, was first held in 1982, won by American, Minh Thai in 22.95 seconds. Germany’s Philipp Weyer won in 2019 with a time of 6.74 seconds