› added 4 years ago

52

TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons characters after his own family members except for Bart which is an anagram of brat.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
XELAE TIL everyone who works at Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vt., is entitled to three free pints of ice cream for each day of work
p8jMN TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list
l5eA TIL Jurassic Park has just 15 minutes of dinosaur screen time.
W1no TIL In Belgium, only 38% of the student will pass their 1st year at university.