› added 2 years ago

73

TIL historians don't know why important warlord Ivar the Boneless was called "boneless." Theories range from him losing a leg to impotence & beyond.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YplV7 TIL that a German family worth close to $40B built their wealth as hardcore Nazis starting in the 1920s. They now own Panera, Krispy Kreme, Dr. Pepper, Snapple, Jimmy Choo and 12 percent of the global coffee market.
69Ny7 TIL that Roman Soldiers were not allowed to marry until the Second Century AD. Until then wives were illegal and any children were considered illegitimate.
VMZ7B TIL about the Gray Goo Scenario, a hypothetical apocalypse scenario in which all life on earth is consumed into a gray biomass created by self replicating nanomachines
d8wyZ TIL That Charles Barkley once had ice thrown on him at a club by another patron. Barkley responded by throwing the patron out a window. When the judge asked Barkley if he had any regrets, Barkley replied, “Yeah I regret we were on the first floor.”
woK58 TIL the phrase “you can’t handle the truth” was created/ improvised by Jack Nicholson. The movie's original screenplay boasted the line "You already have the truth," which Nicholson trimmed to "You can't handle the truth."