› added 4 years ago

428

TIL that Burger King and Popeyes are owned by the same company.

Read more rbi.com

via reddit.com

BLJd TIL: When it comes to child support, the percentage of “deadbeat” moms is actually higher than that of dads who won’t pay.
dV4K TIL that Orsen Welles and Ernest Hemingway became great friends after getting into a fist-fight with each other in a theater:
571p TIL On September 1918, a wounded German soldier limped into Private Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” said Tandey, “so I let him go.” Years later he discovered he had spared an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler.
m1XNE TIL that a Loofah is a vegetable, specifically a member of the pumpkin, squash, and gourd family, and can be eaten if harvested early enough.
MejR0 TIL that Lady Margaret Beaufort, who was married to Edmund Tudor at age 12, gave birth to the future Henry VII at just age 13. A political pawn during the Wars of the Roses, her first marriage took place when she was no older than 3.