› added 9 years ago

254

TIL Travis Kalanick, the CEO and co-founder of Uber, has the 2nd highest Wii Tennis ranking in the world

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

loJaK TIL in Japanese department stores, the staff will offer to put a plastic cover on your shopping bag when it rains. All of the staff knows it is raining outside without looking is because of a special BGM played only when it rains.
a8WWy TIL that the Theory of Evolution was codiscovered by Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin. They exchanged essays and ideas prior to Darwin publishing "On the Origin of Species".
GYyON TIL - The brain accounts for only 2% of your total body weight, but is is responsible for 20% of your energy use on average.
OGA9L TIL in 1905, a minor league baseball player named Andy Oyler hit a home run where the ball only traveled two feet. It had been raining and he hit it right in front of him into the mud and the defense couldn’t find the ball before he rounded the bases.
Nb TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to be in the Expendables while at the hairdresser… and he did it for free.