› added 11 years ago

95

TIL California (population 37,000,000) has only 58 more bars than Wisconsin (population 5,600,000)

Read more public.tableausoftware.com

via reddit.com

BgwJr TIL that in Romania in 1999, a man and a woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning while having sex in a car parked in a garage with the engine running and won the 1999 Darwin Award.
jNjDE TIL Charles Ramsey was eating McDonald's when he heard screaming and saw Amanda Berry trying to escape a house. She had been kidnapped and held captive for 10 years. He called 911, helping her and two other prisoners escape. Hearing this, McDonald's gave Ramsey free food for life.
4koG6 TIL that 'Gremlins' was so shocking it led to the creation of the PG-13 rating in cinema
8a1b4 TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.
69Now TIL about a front brake light. Starting testing for EU in Slovakia.