› added 12 years ago

95

TIL Sergey Titov (producer of The War Z) produced one of the worst video games of all-time

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

epmXL TIL that Sarah Knauss, who was the oldest American to ever live (born 1880), was about to see three centuries in her lifetime, but ultimately died on December 30th, 1999, at the age of 119.
omjY TIL that in La Paz, Bolivia, there are isolated “hotel rooms” where alcoholics can, for a small fee, go to drink themselves to death without fear of interruption. Aptly, they are known as “Elephant Graveyards”.
4r5g TIL that there is a popular internet meme based on the Pokemon character Slowpoke.
N7xr8 TIL that humans and bananas share about 50% of the same DNA.
W7oKB TIL HIV can’t be transmitted by mosquitoes because the virus can’t survive in a mosquito