› added 5 years ago

79

TIL the creator of Keeping Up with the Kardashians was none other than Ryan Seacrest.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

do1B TIL: In Norway Easter is known for “Påskekrim” (Easter Crime), when just about everyone in Norway reads crime novels, television and radio stations run crime serials, and newspapers publish special crime related literary supplements.
JdMV TIL That the Beats audio driver included with some laptops actually makes the sound worse than stock when you turn it off, to make the beats ‘enhancements’ sound better by comparison.
6B0X TIL a man named Alcibiades was an important Athenian general, had to flee Athens and became an important Spartan general, had to flee Sparta and became an important Persian court adviser, and then was elected an Athenian general
oRxOY TIL about Paul Deschanel, the eclectic French president who once walked out of a state meeting and straight into a lake, while fully clothed. He would resign shortly thereafter.
nWmMd TIL that bookworms are an actual thing, the term refers to a variety of insects (usually larval) that can eat paper, leather, and glue in books.