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TIL that in the year 2007, at the peak of the housing bubble, four Mexican farm workers earning less than $15000/year each were somehow eligible purchasers of a $720000 home that they, in theory, had no chance of affording

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N7LGE TIL Jane Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals although"My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares."
5RYp TIL that people who prefer to listen to U2, Radiohead, and Beethoven tended to score the highest on their SATs. In contrast, their consistently lowest scoring counterparts preferred listening to Lil Wayne and Nickelback.
WkY14 TIL that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made nearly 200 million dollars from Book of Mormon, approximately 19 million per month, which was enough money to start their own production company.
b99e4 TIL that before alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, it was common for people in Britain and Ireland to hire a 'knocker-upper", a person who's job was to wake people by using a long stick to tap on their windows, or in some instances, they would use a pea-shooter.
0LBj TIL in 1993 when a US Military food scientist was asked what should be used in the pictograph instructions to prop up the heater of their new “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” rations, he replied “I don’t know. Let’s make it a rock or something.” The rock illustration and the iconic phrase remain on MREs today.