› added 10 years ago

120

TIL that a man tried to redeem 7 million Pepsi points for a harrier jet. When Pepsi declined, he sued.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

b9KyE TIL that the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob, experimented with LSD and was convinced that it is a key to breaking alcohol addiction. But he was not able to bring it mainstream because of objects from other AA members
worRE TIL that Heinrich Himmler used the ancient Hindu text, Bhagvad Gita, as a justification of his crimes and compared himself and Hitler to the Hindu god Krishna.
VwK0 TIL Ben Franklin wrote an essay titled “Fart Proudly,” an entire essay about flatulence.
9wl4B TIL The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.
KOEJ4 TIL that in 2007, the islet of Pontinha became an independent nation after the owner, Renato Barros, an art teacher, noticed a legal loophole in the sale charter issued by the King of Portugal in 1903.