› added 6 years ago

179

TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."

Read more sbnation.com

via reddit.com

e05Pk TIL that archaeologists found Troy-0 and the discovery was a surprise for the world of archaeology and took the history of Troy back 600 years.
WkpdL TIL about Georgia Tann, who was an American child trafficker who operated a major adoption agency in Memphis, Tennesee. Tann used the agency as a front to steal and sell Children in the 1920s until 1950, when a state investigation resulted in the agency closing.
xVa70 TIL Iron Fertilization could capture 10-25% of annual carbon emissions, along with creating clouds that could cool the environment even more.
N71A8 TIL Burt Reynolds took revenge from National Enquirer who wrote crap about him for years by dumping a helicopter full of horse shit on their Florida HQ
E19xV TIL that "On May 5, 1971, Scottie Dunning discovered a tiny male harbor seal pup on the shore of Cundy’s Harbor, Maine." After living in captivity, the seal pup now named Hoover "began to utter phrases such as: “Hello, there!” and “Come Over Here!” in a thick New England accent"