› added 1 year ago

93

TIL Charles Manson hypnotized Danny Trejo when they were in jail together.

Read more mediaite.com

via reddit.com

okj8 TIL the United States and Canada account for 98% of global cranberry production
dMmr TIL that after the Napoleonic Wars, a tobacco merchant named Joseph Williamson paid people in Edge hill, Liverpool to dig miles-long tunnels underground. The tunnels served no purpose, and he did so only to provide employment.
ZpD4p TIL on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion
QNVge TIL that in 1984, Richard Pryor starred in a kids show on CBS called Pryor’s Place. It ran for one season, and Ray Parker Jr. of ‘Ghostbusters’ fame performed the theme song.
LXxV TIL That Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.