› added 6 years ago

539

TIL the first thing purchased on the internet was marijuana

Read more gizmodo.com

via reddit.com

vaYK TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued “No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents.” Coogan’s Bill was passed to protect child actors
NXxr1 TIL the father of Stephen Paddock, the deadliest mass shooter in US history, was a bank robber who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.
xV8xw TIL in April of 1997, the internet faced a blackout due to a single bad router in Florida. The bug spread like a plague across the world, crashing networks everywhere.
gMAl7 TIL about marathon runner Paul Pilkington. In the 1994 LA Marathon, he was paid to set a pace early for other runners with the assumption that he'd eventually drop back during the race. Realizing he had a strong lead, Pilkington shocked everyone by winning.
vPyk8 TIL That following his NASA career, Homer Hickam, known for the movie October Sky, about his teenage exploration of rocketry, became a successful dinosaur hunter, and has discovered, or has helped to discover, 5 of the 40 fossilized T-Rex skeletons ever found.