› added 11 years ago

116

TIL In Yao Ming’s first game in Miami, the Heat passed out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao was not angry with the promotion because he was not familiar with American stereotypes of Chinese. Yao said he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and guessed it must have been an American invention.

Read more webcitation.org

via reddit.com

pYRd4 TIL Australian Shepherds aren’t from Australia!
dYYj TIL Spaghetti Marinara wasn’t invented until the New World was discovered, since tomatoes came from the Aztecs. Before that, pasta was eaten plain with no sauce…with your hands.
kOjrW TIL perp walks (perpetrator walks) are illegal in France, as it is illegal to publish pictures of an identifiable person in handcuffs or police custody unless they have been convicted
D1xVg TIL President Kennedy's family repurchased the house where he was born in after his assassination. His mother restored the house to her recollection of its 1917 appearance and wanted to restore the home to the hour of his birth. She donated the home to the National Park Service in 1967
vEXL TIL that some elevators have a mode called Sabbath service which let people use the elevator without pressing a button