› added 8 months ago

90

TIL that Liang shi, 56, has failed his college entrance exam 27 times in a row, he started in 1983.

Read more edition.cnn.com

via reddit.com

p8PaN TIL that Stephen King cannot remember writing Cujo (1981) because he was so out of it on cocaine
Y76NB TIL smallpox killed more people in the 20th century than all the wars combined.
ayZL TIL of Wong Chin Foo, a 19th century Chinese-American civil rights activist. He launched NYC’s first Chinese newspaper and was active in politics. Wong once challenged Denis Kearney, an anti-Chinese demagogue, to a duel. He offered Kearney “his choice of chopsticks, Irish potatoes or Krupp guns.”
AjNa TIL after killing President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth’s spur was caught on an American flag when he jumped down to the stage causing him to break his leg
8aXEX TIL that an Israeli couple were forced to pay over $2000 for an apartment they never rented because their use of smiley and champagne emojis in a text with the prospective landlord conveyed "great optimism", causing him to take the property off the market.