› added 10 years ago

141

TIL Nickelodeon originally didn’t air commercials, instead the time was filled with a performing mime

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

4XL76 TIL the waterbed was invented in 1833 by a Scottish Physician. He intentionally did not patent it so that anyone could design their own variation of the waterbed and it could help as many people as it could who were suffering from bed sores.
Wk4M4 TIL - There exists a Belgian bicycle road in Germany. It's not that they just own the land, no, the road is fully Belgian territory. It used to be a railroad track, which was appointed to Belgium after the first World War.
ANOl TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson’s pigeons.
M8r8 TIL a company is attempting to create a community of tech workers aboard a cruise ship anchored 12 miles from the US sea border so that they don’t have to obey labour laws or get work visas.
8e7MP TIL Gouverneur Morris, one of the Founding Fathers, died after he had caused himself internal injuries and an infection while using a piece of whalebone as a catheter in an attempt to clear a blockage in his urinary tract.