› added 7 months ago

22

TIL a bunch of Mexican VW car dealership owners sent a Volkswagen Beetle to Pope John Paul II

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

v4yr TIL After recording the song “When I Look at the World”, The Edge couldn’t remember how to play it. Thus U2 does not play the song live.
EgZvX TIL that as Governor of California, Ronald Reagan was not fiscally conservative. He increased spending by 9%, increased the sales tax from 3% to 5%, and increased taxes for the highest income bracket from 7% to 10%
WEP4 TIL that not even a doctor can tell the difference between the lungs of a smoker vs. a non-smoker just by looking at them. Smoking cigarettes does not turn your lungs black
rNl1M TIL Mount Erebus is a continually active volcano in Antarctica, and it has an exposed lava lake that is nearly half a kilometer in diameter.
GYPGE TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.