› added 12 years ago

205

TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.

Read more kotaku.com

via reddit.com

x6an0 TIL The S-shaped bars on the sides of hearses are called "landau bars" and are a nod to the elongated hinges used to fold the convertible roofs of 18th-century carriages
Z8YLG TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.
9YZNm TIL that after struggling to sell his product in drug stores, the inventor of Vaseline would travel around the US intentionally burning himself with acid or an open flame in front of audiences. He would then spread the product all over the wounds and show off old lesions he claimed to be healed
WMdd TIL it is impossible for modern computers to simulate a crumpled ball of paper.
BgV1y TIL Alice was only 43 years old during the first season of the Brady Bunch.