› added 10 years ago

203

TIL Jan 1st 1953 a woman changed her name to Peace Pilgrim “to remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace”. She’d walk until given shelter, fast until given food, without asking, it was given. She died in a car crash in July 1981 from a lift to a speaking engagement

Read more goodreads.com

via reddit.com

xM17 TIL that Jon Lovitz once slammed Andy Dick’s head into a bar
PYNnn TIL one of the twin boys on "Everybody Loves Raymond" committed suicide when he was 19.
neZeB TIL Led Zeppelin knowingly copied the song "You Need Love" in "Whole Lotta Love", but the band considered it "so far away in time and influence" that they decided they could just get away with plagiarism.
jNglQ Today i learned about the human excretory system. ES consist of a pair of kidneys, one pairs of ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra. Kidneys are reddish brown bean shaped structure situated b/w the last thoracic & 3rd lumbar vertebra close 2 the dorsal inner wall of the abdominal cavity.
XXQE TIL if you have no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans