› added 4 years ago

186

TIL: Baseball umpires are required to wear black under pants in the rare event that their pants split.

Read more thefactster.com

via reddit.com

j6MJv Today I learned of the term Sportswashing which is used when corrupt governments and entities use sporting events to try and deflect from negative political and social issues
e01A4 TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the beginning of European settlement
J1ybQ TIL that Meyer Goldstein, one of two Socialists to serve in the U.S. Congress, lost his seat to Samuel Dickstein, who was later discovered to be spying for the Soviet Union
lopAG TIL one of the singers of Africa by the band Toto was also the singing voice of adult Simba in The Lion King. And he is the son of composer John Williams
YpPeA TIL that to get the perfectly high-pitched voices of the chipmunks in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, the voice actors would speak very slowly into a tape recorder, which would then be sped up to normal talking speeds.