› added 9 years ago

488

TIL Texas has at least 200 ghost-towns

Read more ghosttowns.com

via reddit.com

6EWr8 TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
rpDd TIL Santa Clause is the “Patron Saint of Prostitutes”
kJgV5 TIL Uday Hussein was a big fan of Star Wars and he made the fighters of the Fedayeen Saddam wear helmets inspired by Darth Vader’s
4krDR TIL Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; No other Olympian has won more than 9.
75w7 TIL Chris Farley was supposed to be the voice of Shrek and had finished recording almost all of his lines when he died, and he was replaced with Mike Myers. Later, Myers had to re-record all of his lines when he decided to give Shrek a Scottish accent.