Home
Random
Trending
Today
24
posts added
Search
› added
1 year ago
31
TIL: Swedish icon Ikea is really a Dutch charity
Read more
beatlyzer.com
via
beatlyzer.com
YNAB
TIL two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
ne6AY
TIL that the most expensive movie ever made was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It cost $378.5 million to make.
QrPd
TIL While Lucas was filming in Tunisia, the Libyan government became worried about a military vehicle parked near the border. The Tunisian government, receiving threats of military mobilization, politely asked Lucas to move his Sandcrawler away from the border.
w9D8
TIL that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was created in Chester, NY but was branded “Philadelphia” because the city was known for quality cheeses of this kind
O90e
TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11