Post * XEQk — Curious Curator

› added 13 years ago

262

TIL Sylvester Stallone , at 15, was voted as “most likely to end up in the electric chair” by classmates.

Read more

bjyp TIL that last names have a natural tendency to go extinct over time-and that China experiences this with 96% of the population sharing only 200 surnames.

4GY6 TIL that a fortune cookie company once got the lottery numbers right, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation

epPXE TIL attendance at Detroit Tigers’ home games in 1976—excluding the home opener—was 33,649 in the 18 games started by Mark Fidrych and just 15,147 in games started by other pitchers, amounting to a 122.2 percent increase in attendance to watch the charismatic right-hander.

kOrW5 TIL of the horse Potoooooooo, originally named "Potato" but the stable boy wrote down the name as "Pot-8-o" and the owner liked it so much he kept it.

rRleo TIL More than half of bus shelters in Dubai are air-conditioned.