› added 8 years ago

107

TIL AIDS was once known as the “4H Disease”, as it affected heroin addicts, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oR9Z7 TIL Macaulay Culkin held an internet poll asking what he should legally change his middle name to, and the winner was “Macaulay Culkin”, so he legally changed his name and it’s been Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin ever since.
gM0rD TIL the phrase "do you or a loved one suffer from mesothelioma" is the perfect example of the second person point of view.
b9ELZ TIL Croissants are Austrian, not French
oBnlW TIL a drifter named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spider Man, broke into a man’s house and hid in the tiny attic, ended up murdering the man, then continued to hide in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house.
6EBbl TIL with a 7 bil almond industry in Central California, almond farmers pay up to $350 a beehive to keepers for pollination services. This creates a wave of beehive theft. More than 500 beehives went missing so far this year in this region.