› added 3 years ago

112

TIL that The Beach Boys made it up. There is no place called Kokomo off the Florida Keys.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VBL8G TIL Cleopatra (69 BC - 30 BC) was born closer in time to the TV premiere of "Friends" (1994) than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza ( ca. 2490 BC)
wglW TIL in 1918, the geographic center of the United States was determined by balancing a cardboard cutout shape of the US on a point. It was accurate to within 20 miles.
60ow TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
kEGW TIL that in 1912, there were more cars powered by electricity than gasoline
9Wxp TIL that Jeff Bezos wanted to name Amazon “Relentless,” but friends talked him out of it. Relentless.com still directs you to Amazon.com.