› added 10 years ago

632

TIL Tetris was originally created as a simple game to test the capabilities of new Soviet hardware. This is the original version.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

4kaxw TIL that The Doors, in the space of just three-and-a-half years, managed to release 6 studio albums and one live recording. Jim Morrison’s sudden death in 1971 brought their brief but explosive run to an end, making their achievements in such a short period even more impressive.
9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
J1pG8 TIL an entomologist in Colorado wrote a love song about the Cicada mating season to help people understand why they’re so loud.
JWym TIL In 1955 Hugh Hefner released a short story about straight men being persecuted in a gay world. After receiving numerous hatemail, he released a statement saying “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
p8vQN TIL Over a five-year period starting in 1968, commercial jets were hijacked nearly once a week in the United States.