› added 9 years ago

492

TIL that only Big Bird could see Snuffleupagus until season 17

Read more m.today.com

via reddit.com

j66jM TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.
neWO9 TIL that Freddie Mercury wrote the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in just 10 minutes while lounging in a bath.
jQ4v TIL it is not coldest just before the dawn - it is coldest about an hour after dawn. The temperature only begins to increase once the incoming solar radiation overcomes the heat radiating away from earth.
xVOLk TIL that the electric car FOMM ONE is designed to float on water in the event of floods and tsunamis.
yVLXJ TIL that Jane Park, Britains younger ever lottery winner won the lottery so young that she said it ‘ruined her life’, became depressed and considered suing the lottery for allowing someone to win at such a young age after she was left isolated, alone and left to manage millions