› added 11 years ago

285

TIL an NFL player took a shit on a sideline without anyone noticing. For this accomplishment, Bill Belichick gave him the game ball.

Read more sports.yahoo.com

via reddit.com

N7omb TIL that the first person of color to ever be vice president of the United States was Charles Curtis, VP to Herbert Hoover who was of American Indian tribal citizenship
W4rX TIL an archaic term for the kestrel was windfucker
enEb TIL that coca cola has been training us to think of coke when we hear 5 notes that appear in their commercials
kEb7 TIL Folk-hero John Henry (who according to legend, beat a steam drill in a tunnel-digging contest, and who died soon after from exhaustion), may have actually been a real person.
8w4P TIL that Nestlé is draining developing countries to produce its bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.