› added 8 years ago

102

TIL the 1981 sex comedy Porky’s is the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time with slightly over $111 million

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

1LJV TIL that there is one-way bullet resistant glass.
A9xw TIL The Gulf of Tonkin incident which the U.S. Government used as an excuse to start the Vietnam War according to 2005 declassified papers never actually happened.
mxJRO TIL Everyone that Madonna name-checks in the song Vogue is now dead
OG0YY TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
yQGjw TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.