› added 9 years ago

77

TIL Superman couldn’t fly until the 1940s

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZaKY TIL that Matthew Inman, the creator of The Oatmeal, makes about $500,000 a year. 75% is from merchandise, the rest from advertising.
QN0eE TIL The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 was caused intentionally by the perpetrator James Robert Scott so that he could party free of his wife's interference!
nWpMY TIL the Dating Show Killer Rodney Alcala and the Torso Killer Richard Cottingham both worked in the same office at the same time at Blue Cross although they both claim to have not known each other.
ADlmB TIL that salt was so valuable during roman times, soldiers were partially paid in salt. Creating the term salary.
jXDp TIL that Mormonism founder Joseph Smith along with his following Brigham Young believed that Moon as well as Sun is inhabited by Men and Women who lived as long as 1000 years with men all being 6 feet tall dressed uniformly like Quakers.