› added 10 years ago

167

TIL The Mormon Church takes in an estimated $7 billion a year from tithing.

Read more investigations.nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

4kgna TIL on Nov. 17, 1968, with only 50 seconds left, the television broadcast cut out abruptly from a game between the NFL's Jets and the Oakland Raiders to make way for “Heidi,” a made-for-TV children’s movie about a Swiss orphan.
6lvl TIL that 23% of the crew aboard Christopher Columbus’ ship “Santa Maria” was named “Juan”.
egGb TIL Richard Feynman wrote a heart wrenching letter to his wife years after she passed away, which nobody read until after he passed away
VMokQ TIL that the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs extends to their families- daughters Jennifer Gates and Eve Jobs are also equestrian rivals, having competed against each other show jumping.
j6V1v TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)