› added 13 years ago

648

TIL It is actually possible to catch a Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue without cheating

Read more youtube.com

via bit.ly

nQrr TIL Mark Twain, noted abolitionist and women’s rights activist, paid for the schooling of black people, including paying one man’s tuition for Yale Law School.
Zp0v TIL that in June 2010, a 26-year-old man in Germany dropped his pants, threw a puppy at a group of Hell’s Angels, and then tried to escape to Munich on a stolen bulldozer, causing a 3-mile-long traffic jam before being arrested.
8apMa TIL that professional golfer Sam Snead once intentionally lost a televised match because he realized that he had accidentally broken a rule and thought that pointing this out and being disqualified would spoil the show.
7r8Qr TIL Earlier this year, analysis showed that Subway 'chicken' was about 1/2 chicken, 1/2 soy mush.
D1WQr TIL that at 36 letters, the second longest word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which ironically enough means the fear of long words.