› added 6 years ago

86

TIL Tom Petty was so popular his record label wanted to charge $1 more for his 1981 album "Hard Promises" than the standard $8.98, but they backed down after he considered naming the album "$8.98"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lo01K TIL about Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only ethnic food from countries which the United states is in conflict with
gVoL TIL When Charles Manson didn’t receive any gifts for Christmas one year he responded by stealing all of his classmates toys and burning them.
mx0Xo TIL that 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.
Ko4J TIL: A neuroscientist accidentally discovered that he is a psychopath after reviewing his own brain scan.
WkblY TIL in 2015, a British woman began receiving threatening emails from a stalker that included pictures of her in public she had no idea were being taken. When she contacted authorities, they told her the emails were coming from inside her house. It turned out to be her husband.