› added 7 years ago

496

TIL - Emilia Clarke once did a cameo for Futurama playing a character that didn’t have a sense of smell and fell in love with Zoidberg

Read more theinfosphere.org

via ift.tt

mxXgx TIL in 1964, Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The written offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett bought more stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer. The company was Berkshire Hathaway.
Rkg4 TIL a librarian in India has donated his entire salary to charity for the last 30 years including his retirement benefits and inherited property. The US govt gave him the title “Man of the Millennium” and a cash award of $6 Million which he once again gave away to charity.
78O9r TIL of the Bonnacon, a legendary creature with the head and body of a bull, but with horns curled inwards, making them useless for fighting. As such, it would run away from hunters and predators, squirting caustic/fiery excrement up to 2000ft (600m) in it's wake
j6dKp TIL Fredric Wertham's 'Seduction of the Innocent' in 1954 criticized Batman comics for alleged homosexual tones. This led to a 'sunnier Batman' era , with characters like Batwoman and Batgirl introduced to counter the claims about Batman and Robin being gay.
97x7 TIL Cincinnati was named after Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who is cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, lack of personal ambition and modesty.