› added 12 years ago

329

TIL Mark Zuckerberg is not the world’s youngest billionaire. Rather, it is his former college roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, who is a mere 8 days younger and also made his fortune in Facebook.

Read more finance.yahoo.com

via reddit.com

pN74 TIL the original ‘Mind the Gap’ recording used on the London Underground was restored at Embankment station last year because the actor’s widow was comforted to hear her husband’s voice again.
XvB8 TIL: The word ‘Freelance’ comes from 1820 novel ‘Ivanhoe’. It meant a mercenary knight with no allegiance who offered his services in exchange for money.
xVYoB TIL fans turned on Seinfeld character George Costanza twice. He was played as being a terrible person doing atrocious things, and while viewers happily went along with most of his unsavory schemes, they reviled him when he killed Susan and when he ate an eclair out of the garbage.
WkZWo TIL that snake oil is actually an effective inhibitor of inflammation that was disparaged by US sellers of patent medicine to the extent that snake-oil continues to have a bad name to the present day.
eYO6 TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”