› added 7 years ago

197

TIL 20 minutes spent on the London Underground's Northern Line is as bad for your lungs as smoking a cigarette.

Read more standard.co.uk

via reddit.com

LPgd TIL after receiving poor reception following the viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas to network executives, an animator, who had been drinking, said, “it’s going to run for a hundred years” and then fell down.
epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.
JPVj TIL that Mary Babnik Brown was chosen to donate her hair (which had never been treated with heat or chemicals) to become the crosshairs on Norden bombsights during WWII.
LkB9v TIL about the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a secret collection of obscene materials that had restricted access
PYZXE TIL the Iconic 'what are you waiting for' moment in ' I know what you did last summer ', was directed by a kid.