› added 11 years ago

65

TIL wrestler John Cena has granted over 300 wishes for the Make A Wish foundation, the most of any to date.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7rPv7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln admired John Wilkes Booth's acting, and had invited him to the White House many times in the years before his assassination.
woGA7 TIL that in Iceland alone there are 111 'Blood farms' - that forcibly extract huge quantities of blood from pregnant mares - horses. The blood is used to create a hormone (PMSG) that is given to factory farm pigs to increase the size of their litters.
Lkp50 TIL Chick-fil-A makes more per restaurant than McDonald's, Starbucks and Subway combined
e0pKn TIL that in the UNESCO's list of world's most translated authors, aka Index Translationum, Vladimir Ilyic Lenin is in the 7th place leaving behind Karl Marx, who is in the 31st place.
oBBlA TIL that there is a desk full of candy in the US Senate