› added 11 years ago

193

TIL that Jack Nicholson was brought up believing that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents. For 37 years.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZpPvD TIL by eating sausages during Lent in 1522, Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli defied Church fasting rules, igniting the Swiss Reformation.
mGWR TIL that William Whipple freed his slaves when he signed the Declaration of Independance, because he believed that he could not fight for freedom and own slaves
M7Og7 TIL Petula Clark had a worldwide hit in 1967 with "This is my song". #1 in UK, Ireland, Australia, and #3 in the US and Canada. Words and music were written by Charlie Chaplin.
LkpbZ TIL Alexander the Great has a giant glass barrel made. He sat in it and had people lower it into the water so he could look at fish.
X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.