› added 2 years ago

76

TIL Sir Rod Stewart has 8 children with 5 women and once said "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rRGg1 TIL Movie theatre popcorn is sold at a 1275% markup
YMNd TIL that igloos can retain a temperature of 60° F during -50° weather. Fire inside melts the inner layer of ice, and the cold outside refreezes it, adding a layer of insulation.
GALb1 TIL that bone china is made from bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin, and it originated in the UK, not in China.
V6m8 TIL that when a French artist is killed during war, the government has a “died for France” designation which extends their post-mortem copyrights by 30 years
gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.