› added 8 years ago

224

TIL that North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1,000 Stolen Volvos and every 6 months Sweden sends them reminders.

Read more europe.newsweek.com

via reddit.com

grMVX TIL The Mojave Desert Mailbox is considered the most isolated and least accessible mailbox in America. It sits halfway along the 150 mile, 4-wheel drive only, Old Mojave Rd, which can take 3 days to drive the entire length.
ARXn TIL: 2,000 mice were parachuted into Guam to kill snake invaders. The mice were dead and pumped full of acetaminophen which killed the snakes.
WkEjN TIL that when Tom Green won a Golden Rasberry Award for "Freddy Got Fingered", he showed up in a white cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, told the crowd he wanted to win the award, then pulled out and played a harmonica until security dragged him offstage.
LQOK9 TIL that if every US citizen consumed the recommended amount of daily fruits and veggies that the world’s agriculture actually couldn’t support it
R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.