› added 4 years ago

96

TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate child

Read more discoverwalks.com

via reddit.com

wBeP TIL Volvo released the first car with 3 point seatbelts, the Amazon, and gave the seatbelt design away for free to save lives.
0GX5 TIL Zach Galifianakis once went to a KKK rally for an interview and asked the grand wizard if he’d seen Big Momma’s House 3, it was the “highlight of my career” he stated
4k86X TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
neM1d TIL NFL players pee "all over the sideline in every game, into cups, on the ground, in towels, behind the bench, in their pants, everywhere"
VdK0 TIL that “o'clock” is a contraction of “stroke of the clock” and comes from 15th century references to medieval mechanical clocks