› added 12 years ago

124

TIL that in Australia, Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NQY6 TIL Jamie Oliver took Mc Donalds to court to change the recipe of their meat and won, and have started making healthier meat since then.
D0VJ TIL a group of teenagers known as the “Bling Ring” tried robbing Paris Hilton’s house perceiving her as ‘dumb’, finding the key under the doormat and front door unlocked. They robbed her house 4 more times over the next 3 months taking $3M worth of her clothing and jewelry before being caught.
mxEpo TIL - Opossums will destroy some 90 percent of all the ticks they encounter.
yJ08 TIL in 1985 US Marshalls Service once sent “invitations” to the last known addresses of 5000 known fugitives saying they had won free tickets to a Redskins - Bengals game. When the “winners” arrived to pick up their tickets they were arrested by Deputy Marshals and DC Metropolitan Police officers.
v1jJj TIL that Cambridge University Library has run out of room for its 9 million+ books and built a huge store to hold 4 million more. The first book they put in was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.