› added 4 years ago

278

TIL John Prine was discovered as a singer by Roger Ebert.

Read more cnn.com

via reddit.com

dblQ TIL Scottie Pippen is so cheap that restaurant workers had given him the nickname “No Tippin’ Pippen”
Lk0XV TIL that A Charlie Brown Christmas was widely predicted to be a failure, and the animation was completed in only four months.
7reNr TIL Geraldo Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army in Iraq as a war correspondent for Fox News and ended up drawing a map in the sand during a live broadcast pinpointing his exact location and revealing the time and details of an upcoming military operation
4koo5 TIL that the cows living on Queen Elizabeth's estate sleep on waterbeds.
YpVBZ TIL of the Gold Coast Meter Maids. Bikini-clad women on Australia's Gold Coast who would top off parking meters of parked cars in order to avoid a parking fine.