› added 11 years ago

118

TIL The early comedy cinema joke of slipping on a banana peel was a reference to slipping in horse manure.

Read more comedy.co.uk

via reddit.com

ADOao TIL that Chiropractors are not a type of medical doctor, cannot practice medicine, and Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine like acupuncture.
YpJXB TIL of the "Babushkas of Chernobyl", Ukraine - women who survived the Holodomor famine and have returned to live in Chernobyl's radioactive Exclusion Zone.
9eym TIL, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of such Nintendo games as Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda, has a hobby of guessing the measurements of objects, then checking to see if he was correct. He enjoys the hobby so much he carries a tape measure with him everywhere.
BreXk TIL Flo Rida, the rapper, is from Florida, the state. That's why he calls himself Flo Rida. But he hates being called Florida (like the state).
8adpP TIL that rapper Too $hort quit smoking after he wrote the ten-minute-long "Freaky Tales" and then found that he didn't have enough breath to perform it live