› added 8 months ago

25

TIL that, as the name might suggest, Billboard magazine was originally the trade publication for bill posters and billboard installers.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QJGGL TIL In Canada there is a prisoner known as "the Unknown Person" who has been imprisoned since 2013 because he refuses to identify himself.
1avPO TIL Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
VM09D TIL of a researcher who was trying to develop eye-protection goggles for doctors doing laser eye surgery. He let his friend borrow them while playing frisbee, and his friend informed him that they cured his colorblindness.
v1Z88 TIL that Maya Rudolph's mom is the legendary Minnie Riperton, who sang the song Loving You. Minnie was referring to Maya at the end of the song. Minnie Riperton passed away at the age of 31 due to breast cancer.
x6bWw TIL : Operation Legacy : A British Colonial Office (later Foreign Office) programme to destroy or hide files that would implicate the British Empire in wrongdoing, as to prevent them from being used by their ex-colonies. It ran till 70s