› added 7 years ago

99

TIL Johnny Cash recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

Lkx69 TIL that the first ever speeding ticket was issued to Walter Arnold on the 28th of January 1896 in Kent, England. He was blitzing through the town at 8mph (4 times the legal limit), was chased for 5 miles by a police officer on a bicycle, and was fined 1 shilling when he was finally caught.
nYpP TIL that Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who, asked his then-girlfriend, Walter-Lax, to cook him steak and eggs. When she refused, he said, “If you don’t like it, you can fuck off!” Those were his last words - he was found dead of an overdose after.
nPO7 TIL Ontario Canada has a law that states an apology is not an admission of guilt
QJgxe TIL in an interview printed in the New York Times in 1969, Vladimir Nabokov said, "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket."
VMmaQ TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he and his friend Paul Allen would hack the scheduling system so that Gates was the only boy in classes full of girls.