› added 2 years ago

77

TIL actor Donald O'Connor (born 1925) 7 year old sister died from being hit by a car. Few weeks later, his father died of a heart attack; his brother Billy died a decade later from scarlet fever and his eldest sibling Jack died from alcoholism in 1959. His three other siblings died during childbirth

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9Z1m TIL that the NFL cannot host games on Fridays or Saturdays until late December as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football, which typically host games on those days.
YpoR7 TIL Jim Henson originally wanted the Muppets to be for adults and didn't see his characters as a vehicle for children's education and family entertainment. Indeed, he first envisioned something closer to South Park rather than Sesame Street and in the 1950s they did dark comedy in commercials.
e0XG6 TIL a review found 80% of Chinese clinical drug trials fraudulent. They found examples of fabricated and altered data with adverse effects withheld. In one example, the validity of data was questioned when they discovered a researcher responsible for recording it wasn't employed at the time.
Mmb TIL 35% of the population is born without wisdom teeth, because we don’t need them anymore.
MeKx8 TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”