› added 3 years ago

91

TIL of "Rubygate", where Ruby Rubacuori, 17-years old, claimed Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi gave her $10,000 at private parties. Ruby told prosecutors that Berlusconi held orgies where 20 young women performed an African ritual known as "bunga bunga" nude.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4XVKX TIL 358 millions years ago Earth was in the Carboniferous period, during that age oxygen levels were 15 percent higher than today thanks to the abundance of plant life, which meant scorpions were the size of dogs, a caterpillar was the size of an anaconda and dragonfly's were size of eagles
GYRw4 TIL Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations.
DRRp TIL that the Casa Bonita restaurant from South Park is a real place and pretty much exactly as described by Cartman in the episode
16Wv7 TIL that "Van Der Beek" translates to "From the creek" in Dutch. James Van Der Beek starred in "Dawson's Creek" in the late 90s and early oughts.
OG54 TIL that Frank Zappa pulled his kids out of school at age 15 and refused to pay for college.