› added 11 years ago

105

TIL Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, then Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.

Read more webspace.ship.edu

via reddit.com

awoN TIL Alice Cooper led the movement to restore the dilapitated Hollywood sign, in the 1970’s. He then fully paid for the third “O” himself, dedicating it to Groucho Marx.
PoZg TIL Dogs can have depression
78VKO TIL that avalanche airbags are a thing. There's a special backpack with a cord you pull to inflate it when an avalanche hits while you're skiing/snowboarding, etc
NXx8N TIL that the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered just 31 days after the event. It starred Dorothy Gibson, an actual survival of the tragedy, who co-wrote the script and played a fictionalized version of herself. It's now lost, as the last known prints were destroyed in a fire
6VpZ TIL 2Pac’s double-platinum posthumous album “Loyal to the Game” was composed and produced entirely by Eminem, with 100% of royalties going to Tupac Shakur’s mother.