› added 5 years ago

523

TIL that in a 1939 poll, Princeton freshman ranked Adolf Hitler as the greatest living person and ranked Einstein second.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

jNVOn TIL that after the band Chumbawamba was paid $100,000 by General Motors for the use of their song "Pass it Along" in an ad, they then donated 100% of the proceeds to activist groups for the purpose of beginning information and environmental campaigns against GM.
85DX TIL Harriet Tubman (1823-1913) was alive at the same time as John Adams (1735-1826) and Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
aZOL TIL “The Golden Girls”, “All in the Family” and “Will and Grace” are the only three sitcoms where every performer in the main cast won at least one Emmy.
40mb TIL that when a cat brings back dead animals, it is actually acting out its natural role as mother and teacher. Human owner’s represent the cat’s surrogate family and they are teaching us how to catch and eat prey, just as they would teach their young in the wild.
4EXb TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.