› added 4 years ago

52

TIL that the 1912 presidential election pitted against each other a former President, Teddy Roosevelt; the incumbent President, William Howard Taft; & a future President, Woodrow Wilson.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9YyGr TIL A Soap Opera is the inspiration for the Harley Quinn character. Writer Paul Dini needed the Joker to have a sidekick and was friends with Arleen Sorkin. Dini remembered Sorkin had appeared as a jester in a dream sequence on Days of Our Lives and used the scene as an inspiration for Quinn.
J8N8 TIL sex can generate a 25-45% increase in ejaculate volume compared to masturbation
xo5b TIL In 1883, a writer attempted to make a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook - despite not knowing English himself. Popularized in America by Mark Twain, “English As She Is Spoke” is filled with such nonsensical English idioms as “to craunch the marmoset” and “to buy cat in pocket.”
X0AAD TIL there's a people and a language called Anāl
yQkdV TIL that white men 85 and older have a suicide rate that is six times that of the overall national rate.