› added 4 years ago

263

TIL when Macy’s added giant balloons to the Thanksgiving parade in 1927, they were released at the end of the parade. Anyone who recovered and returned one got $100.

Read more time.com

via reddit.com

Jra8 TIL of Cymothoa exigua - a parasite that severs the blood vessels of a fish’s tongue and becomes a new functional tongue. Only known parasite to replace an entire organ.
rNYRx TIL that the 1976 NFL team, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by season's end, had 21 players on injury reserve. Of those 21 players, 18 of them required knee surgery.
YwMr TIL Stephen King gave a rave review of the film “The Evil Dead”, which helped convince New Line Cinema to serve as its distributor. King called it “most ferociously original film of the year,” which attracted the interest of critics who otherwise would likely have dismissed the low-budget thriller.
5VMXr TIL that the maps, that William Clarke made during his famous 1803 expedition with Meriwether Lewis were done with such accuracy that they were only off by 40 miles from his starting point in Camp River Dubois in Illinois to the Pacific Ocean.
ore7 TIL that the Disney film “The Emperor’s New Groove” was originally supposed to be a more dramatic, Lion King-style movie called “Kingdom of the Sun.”