› added 12 years ago

105

TIL that White Star crewmembers on the Titanic were considered fired as of the moment it sank

Read more radiotimes.com

via reddit.com

ne4wb TIL that Gothic literature makes a distinction between “terror” and “horror.” Terror is the sense of dread and apprehension that precedes an experience, horror is the sense of revulsion after an experience.
LYR0 TIL Vin Scully called Sandy Koufax’s perfect game (1965), Hank Aaron’s 715th HR (1974), “The Catch” (1982), Bill Buckner’s error (1986), and Kirk Gibson’s home run (1988). BTW he still announces Dodger baseball today.
kJJX7 TIL the film Minority Report started out as a sequel to Total Recall
XO6Q TIL that a man and nine of his friends played a game of tag for 23 years. The game had no geographic limits, and only went live in the month of February, meaning that if you were tagged last, you were “It” for a year.
8a5gX TIL cats eat their kitten's poop