› added 11 years ago

97

TIL when suicide is taken into account, more men die as a result of domestic abuse than women.

Read more mediaradar.org

via reddit.com

b9gJ7 TIL the state name Idaho does not mean anything; despite claims that it refers to an Indian term, the man who suggested the name later admitted that he made it up.
rwpW TIL: A man was ticketed for using the carpool lane in California with official papers of incorporation to prove corporations aren’t people
OkM6 TIL activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and passed their secret handshakes/codes to the writers of “The Adventures of Superman.” The radio show then ridiculed these practices for 16 episodes and caused Klan recruitment to grind to a halt virtually overnight.
LZdv TIL that in The Simpsons episode “You Only Move Twice”, Albert Brooks ad-libbed most of Hank Scorpio’s dialogue. The end result was two hours of dialogue for Hank.
GY1E TIL that when Iggy Pop was in a mental institution, David Bowie was one of the few people who would visit him he would smuggle in cocaine for Pop.