› added 11 years ago

87

TIL Ashton Kutcher is a product engineer at Lenovo and invested in Skype and Foursquare when they were startup companies

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9Wlp TIL: It took 200,000 years to bring 1st billion people on Earth, 100 more years to bring 2nd billion and now we add 1 billion people to this planet every 12 years.
m1OAo TIL a californian lady called Denise Rossi won $1.3 million in lottery, divorced her husband of 25 years without telling him about her win. He later found out and sued her for not disclosing her assets. The judge awarded him every cent of her prize.
yQGNl TIL of Arthur Chu, a Jeopardy! contestant who won 11 games by picking a new category after every correct answer to throw off his opponents
691wY TIL the vindaloo curry is based on a Portuguese dish, carne de vinha d'alhos.
pdx4 TIL that Al-Qaeda has a 5-phase strategy, culminating in the collapse of the US economy due to military overextension. 4 phases are complete.