› added 2 months ago

67

TIL That Harriet Tubman was a secret spy in the civil war

Read more brandeis.edu

via reddit.com

gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.
R7anw TIL that the "The NeverEnding Story" movie, despite having german producers, a german director and german screenplay authors and being based on a german book, shot mostly in Germany and released in Germany before the US, still was produced in English and features almost exclusively american actors.
6EARY TIL Native Americans never rode horses until the Europeans brought them in the 16th century
89nV TIL that in 1977 McDonalds had to pay the creators of H.R. Pufnstuf more than $1,000,000 for essentially ripping off the TV show when the restaurant created its McDonaldland characters (Mayor McCheese, Big Mac, Hamburglar etc…)
OGPk4 TIL that Darth Vader is called Svarthöfði (black head) in Icelandic and there's also a street in Reykjavik named after him