› added 12 years ago

411

TIL a Spam text message stopped a suicide bomber New Years Eve 2010.

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via reddit.com

VBWJ8 TIL In 1963, The Alweg Monorail Company offered to build a 43-mile monorail system for Los Angeles County free of charge, recouping construction costs from passenger fares. The County Board of Supervisors declined the offer under pressure from Standard Oil.
VMMDk Is the fish's deadly rep justified?
wLYXM TIL that there's a cattle station in Australia that is bigger than the entire country of Israel.
b9oON TIL of a Russian family who were cut off from all human contact for 40 years in the Siberian wilderness. They were completely unaware that World War 2 had occurred.
wxO6 TIL that Jeff Daniels only earned $50K for Dumb and Dumber compared to Jim Carrey’s $7Mil.