› added 5 years ago

171

TIL that the South Park creators came up with the idea of Saddam Hussein dating Satan on the set of BASEketball where they’d try to impress girls by ad-libbing lines as the characters

Read more southpark.cc.com

via reddit.com

rN6b1 TIL: Rice brokers were extremely influential during the Edo period. Rice brokers provided rice loans, set up the Kyoto central rice market, and introduced paper money. However, inflation, the inability of samurai to pay back their loans, and the debasement of rice ended the rice broker profession.
PYeyE TIL that, under Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire was a Meritocracy (government by people promoted on a basis of Merit rather than Nepotism)
EgQOo TIL after that near-default in 2011, the plunging stock market vaporized $2.4 trillion in household wealth, which took time to rebuild, and cost taxpayers billions in higher interest payments
v1JG8 TIL not everyone is born with the innate ability to internally plug their nose by “flexing” their soft palete. However it appears as though it can (easily?) be learned.
PYKPe TIL A backwards message was inserted into the B-52’s album “Bouncing Off the Satellites.” In the last 30 seconds of the track "Detour Thru Your Mind," Fred Schneider says, "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle."