› added 6 years ago

94

TIL: 'A black sheep' is unlucky because its wool could not be dyed.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

KYd8J TIL about a 16 year old art student who lost most of her fingers when she plunged her hands into a bucket of plaster until it set. The heat of the chemical reaction caused terrible burns when fellow students and teachers failed to remove the plaster with a hammer. The school was fined only £20,000.
m8ao TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.
8epgG TIL that Drew Carey refuses to ever submit himself for an Emmy Award nomination
grw7W TIL about Lynne Redgrave, who is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, collectively known when all four have been won as "EGOT") – without winning any of them
e0mk4 TIL that in the early days of home computers, late 70's to early 80's, computer magazines featured code listings that readers would spend hours typing into their computer in order to play a game or have a certain program.