› added 10 years ago

136

TIL: Before alarm clocks there were ‘knocker-ups’ in Britain and Ireland who went knocking door to door with a large stick.

Read more genealogyresearchnetwork.com

via reddit.com

vPJe4 TIL Dolly Parton is one of the largest employers in her home region of Tennessee (via Dollywood). After the 2016 wildfires, she raised over $9M through her My People Fund, giving 900+ families $1,000/month for 6 months ($10K total each) to rebuild. She was also honored by the FBI for her leadership.
JY6Wk TIL that it was Hasbro, an American multinational toy company that coined the term “Action Figure”, to market their G.I. Joe toys to boys who would not play with “dolls”
0w7b5 TIL Wikipeida have tried to adopt a mascot. Suggestions have been a monkey behind a typewriter, an amoeba, Cliff Clavin (from Cheers), The Thinker, an owl, slime mold, termites. The most common mascot is the anime influenced Wikipie-Tan, a Moe personification of the site. She's still unofficial.
R7rE4 TIL that every South Korean president living today has either been jailed or is in prison now.
ZP1R TIL that regular marijuana users are less likely to be obese, even after adjusting for other factors that could influence body fat and health. (Pot is an appetite stimulant, but an ingredient in marijuana has been shown to aid in dieting; at high doses it nearly tripled weight loss versus placebo.)