› added 12 years ago

341

TIL one of the oldest companies in America sold soap to George Washington and many other presidents. They still sell the scents in the exact formulas today.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

x60VB TIL that Mel Brooks won his first Oscar as a narrator in a short animated cartoon depicting an elderly gentleman in a wrong movie theater watching an abstract movie, who struggles to understand what he's actually looking at
D10wY TIL President LBJ thought Nixon's back-channel communications to S.Vietnam government were treasonous (Nixon secretly told the S.Vietnamese to stop the Vietnam War peace talks with President LBJ, and wait until Nixon gets elected to get a "better deal".)
wLpp8 TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, where 9 students were found dead under strange circumstances that couldn't be explained. One had no eyes, almost none had their shoes on, and were severely under-dressed.
EeyP TIL there is a town in Australia where the entire town (200+ people) live underground in abandoned mines. Residents here have electricity and plumbing, and have been known to find vast amounts of Opal when renovating.
5rjk TIL The United States helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Brazil