› added 6 years ago

120

TIL the only band to turn down touring with David Bowie was the one and only Kraftwerk in 1976.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

d8LMK TIL: Blood types evolved over time with A being the oldest in pre-humans and with B, O, and AB evolving starting about 5 million years ago.
166aP TIL Weird Al's biggest problem with services that illegally distributed his music was that they would misattribute songs to him. Al was especially annoyed by profane songs like, "Baby Got Jack” or “Ugly Girl”.
14LD TIL Finland is the world’s most stable society. It has the highest rate of literacy and the second-lowest level of corruption in the world.
5Vmn9 TIL that despite infamously campaigning on "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama governor George Wallace later renounced segregationism, publicly apologized to the black community, and appointed record numbers of African Americans to state positions and his cabinet.
WkxQ4 TIL "flushable" wipes cause major clogs in sewers and should not be flushed down the toilet