› added 7 years ago

108

TIL that Bart Simpsons hit song “Do the Bartman” was written by massive Simpsons fan, Michael Jackson.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

RBx8 TIL: Bats exert no energy to hang upside down, instead relying on its body weight to keep it’s talons closed.
lBJK TIL Excedrin & Excedrin Migraine are the same exact thing… just a different price
oRBrA TIL that while Queen Elizabeth II is titular head of the Commonwealth, and her designated successor is her son Charles, Prince of Wales, the title is not strictly speaking a hereditary one.
QNaW6 TIL that Mr.Dink’s name is an acronym for Double Income No Kids; this is why he was able to afford gadgets that were “very expensive”.
ANglo TIL the word Dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word Thaler, meaning from the valley. Thaler is the shortened version of Joachimthalers, a mine town in the Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia) where silver coins were minted.