› added 6 years ago

104

TIL That Dwight's brother Mose in The Office was the producer of The Office, as well as the creator of Parks and Rec, The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZpjeD TIL Roald Amundsen, who led the first expedition South Pole killed and ate many of his sled dogs to achieve this task. He is considered to be cruel and ruthless by experts, and later on himself lamented his brutal behaviour.
D1WkV TIL about Florida stone crabs that are caught in traps, the claw ripped off and the crab tossed back into the ocean to grow a new claw.
awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.
4X5vw TIL that "Blue Blood" as a synonym for royalty, came from Spain following the Reconquista, in which some spanish nobles would show their pale skin, with blue veins showing, as proof that they had never mixed with the Moors who occupied Spain for centuries.
6E9p8 TIL Dr. Burzynski a pioneering biochemist discovered a unique way of treating cancer patients with Antineoplastons thereafter enduring an ongoing ordeal against the FDA, The Texas Medical Board, The National Cancer Institute & other federal agencies.