› added 8 years ago

340

TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

yjel TIL An elephant (Tarra) and a stray dog (Bella) were inseparable best friends at a sanctuary in TN. Tarra even waited outside a building for a week as Bella healed from an injury.
R79y9 TIL it is statistically harder to get a job in the FBI than it is to get accepted into Harvard
MeKm8 TIL of Magnus Carlsen who played against 10 chess grandmasters simultaneously with his back turned to them while verbally being told each person's moves. He beat them all.
xVLKg TIL that when 13-year-old Ryan White got AIDS from a blood donor in 1984, he was banned from returning to school by a petition signed by 117 parents. An auction was held to keep him out, a newspaper supporting him got death threats, and his family left town when a gun was fired through their window.
KOpPa TIL the drummer of Black Keys Patrick Carney was testing out his new studio in Tennessee and sent some chords to his uncle, who then added sax and trombone sounds to go with it. It was all compiled by the time Noel Bright was looking for a theme song for Bojack and became first pick.