› added 5 years ago

747

TIL astronauts receive a starting salary of only 66k a year.

Read more work.chron.com

via reddit.com

NKKQ TIL Al Lewis (Grandpa on The Munsters) used to have Charles Manson babysit his kids.
Ejnx TIL Krispy Kreme stores withdrew ‘Krispy Kreme Klub ’ in UK when they realised their abbreviation of KKK has another meaning.
OoDPe TIL that to write the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home", Paul McCartney was inspired by a newspaper article about a missing girl named Melanie Coe. McCartney would later learn that he had met Coe before - he had chosen her as the winner of a competition on a game show he hosted three years prior.
690KQ TIL that the lesbian divorce rate is much higher than the divorce rate among men, and in Denmark, it's consistent with data showing that women initiate most heterosexual divorces.
dDx9B TIL bed bugs do not engage in courtship rituals; rather, their method of mating is known as traumatic insemination. In this process, a male bed bug will climb onto a female and use his hypodermic penis to puncture the side of her body, depositing his sperm into her body cavity...