› added 6 years ago

307

TIL there was a funded study on impact of piracy on sales which results were withheld by EU presumably due to finding no negative impact

Read more engadget.com

via reddit.com

eQwb TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.
m10lO TIL that one town had enough injuries due to men masturbating with vacuum cleaners that its doctor became an unintentional “expert on vacuum-involved penile injuries.”
grEZ8 TIL the Senate and House both have a chaplain that leads or invites someone to lead prayer every session opening.
epmQn TIL that the South’s portrayal of the Civil War primarily being about “State Rights” was a narrative that was pushed after the war with the book Lost Cause.
6EknQ TIL that the island council of Mackinac Island in Michigan had to give special permission for the 1980 Christopher Reeve movie 'Somewhere In Time' to bring cars on the island as (other than emergency vehicles) cars are prohibited. The cars brought for the production were limited to filming areas.