› added 12 years ago

145

TIL an old Persian curse: Guz bi rishit, “May a fart be on your beard.”

Read more whyishootstuff.blogspot.de

via reddit.com

Wjx8 TIL Teller of Penn & Teller’s full name is legally just “Teller”.
X0Pa8 TIL the phrase“bleeding heart liberal” came from Pulitzer Price winning journalist, Westbrook Pegler in 1933. He used the phrase denouncing an anti-lynching bill before Congress. He also finished 3rd in Times Man of the Year behind FDR and Stalin in 1941.
mWRR TIL that in Ancient Alexandria there was a prominent Mathematician named Hypatia. She came to embody the enlightened Alexandian spirit. She was flayed to death with oyster shells by a Christian mob. Her death is considered by many to be the beginning of the end for intellectual Alexandria.
l70xA TIL that 110 years ago members of the Colorado National Guard opened fire and killed 21 coal miners and their family members when they were on strike for better working conditions.
BgQjk TIL that the cartoons Doug, PB&J Otter and Pinky Dinky Doo were all made by the same person