› added 12 years ago

137

TIL - Gasoline prices vary by country from less than 7 cents (USD) per gallon to over $10 USD per gallon

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j6rOE TIL Chuck E. Cheese Pizza was founded by the guy who started Atari and oversaw the creation of Pong
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.
VZ78 TIL When researching the film “Cast Away”, Screen writer William Broyal Jr deliberately stranded himself on an isolated island for one week to force himself to find food, water and obtain shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for Wilson.
wOlE TIL the world’s first film star was a prostitute
eGkD TIL Europeans feared eating tomatoes for 200 years, because when wealthy Europeans using pewter plates, high in lead content, ate tomatoes off the plates, the high acidity in tomatoes would cause the fruit to leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning