› added 5 years ago

387

TIL Nirvana was once asked to use a back track while performing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a British T.V. program and they intentionally butchered the performance in protest of such policy. The crowd still loved it.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

ADeNn TIL that theoretically the smallest object in the universe is called a Preon. Inside of an atom is the nucleus, inside that are 3 quarks. And inside a quark is theorized to be something called Preons. They are so small that as of now, they haven't even been physically observed.
mx6BE TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader who was born when the Soviet Union already existed.
R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
DQdpj TIL that some Jeeps have "Easter Eggs" of designs of animals and other symbols that are hidden around the vehicle; with some found on the windshield or carved into the dashboard, under seats, and near the gas cap.
ZYG4 TIL there is an island called North Sentinel Island, and it is home to an small, ancient tribal civilization called the Sentinelese. They are one of the last groups on the planet to be virtually untouched by modern civilization and are known to murder those who get too close to their island.