› added 1 year ago

71

TIL: Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python sketch

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6E9QZ TIL the Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" was written for Clapton's four-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment in 1991. He doesn't sing it live because he doesn't feel the loss anymore and he doesn't want those feelings to come back.
MemnK TIL that they feed inmates dogs and cats in South Korea
Ye4Z TIL A 3500 year old Egyptian temple dedicated to Montu - God of strength and war - was disassembled in the 19th century to build a sugar factory
yQX8l TIL that a "sense of impending doom" is a medically recognised symptom, and can indicate certain conditions.
pPKG TIL that the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is translated as The Spy Who Liked Me a Lot in China.