› added 10 years ago

76

TIL during WWII the Federal Reserve printed special money for Hawaii to make it easy to render the bills useless if the Japanese overtook Hawaii.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADEal TIL in The silver fox domestication experiment, the tamest foxes were selected to be bred, generation after generation, to see what happened: they became very tame very fast, developed floppy ears and curly tails, and some got mottled coats, just like other domesticated animals.
vJOR TIL that George clooney wanted to be on an episode of south park, so trey Parker and Matt stone had him be the voice of stan’s dog sparky. He only got to make dog sounds.
vPMoj TIL that at Jim Henson’s memorial service on July 2 1990, Big Bird, puppeteer Carroll Spinney and Jim Henson‘s friend of 30 years, sang ‘it’s not easy being green’ (Kermit’s song) as a tribute to the late creator of the Muppets.
gMEgb TIL that Henry VIII asked the king of France, Francis I, to a wrestling match. Francis quickly beat Henry, humiliating him.
4XnlX TIL that printer companies implement programmed obsolescence by embedding chips into ink cartridges that force them to stop printing after a set expiration date, even if there is ink remaining.