› added 4 years ago

63

TIL When six-foot-eight Brad Garrett starred as Jackie Gleason in a 2002 biopic, his costars had to wear boots with 7 inch lifts to look normal.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

LagZ TIL in 2012, Greenpeace convinced the Zambian government that it was better to let people starve to death rather than distribute golden rice, during a famine. Thus causing greater use of pesticide and unnecessary deaths
jdPN TIL Déjà vu can be a chronic medical condition. Patients have problems watching TV because everything feels like a rerun and some refuse to see a doctor because they feel like they already have.
517D TIL that by law in Queensland, Australia, a Koala may only be cuddled 30 minutes per day, and must have every third day off.
R58Pa TIL of Jennifer Keelan, an 8 year old girl with cerebral palsy who crawled up the steps of the Capitol building to tell Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act that had been stalled in committee. It was signed into law 4 months later.
VMJk0 TIL that Karl Marx wasn't aware of advances being made in differential calculus and developed the concepts himself while writing his mathematical manuscripts