› added 4 years ago

51

TIL of Paul Walker an American actor who was famous for his role as an illegal street car racer in the movie franchise Fast and Furious. In 2013 he ended up dying in a fiery car crash after having gone twice the posted speed limit in an area known for drifting cars.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

D1rQY TIL that the Malcolm in the Middle theme song and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme song were written by the same people, They Might Be Giants.
XEdE TIL that 10 years ago an eight-year-old boy had his arm bitten off by a shark. His uncle got mad and grabbed the 7-foot-long shark and dragged it to shore. The shark was killed, the arm removed from it’s stomach, and reattached to the boy, who made a full recovery.
8o4G TIL There is a rare type of lava called Natrocarbonatite. It’s so cold it glows only at night. It’s black, but within hours turns white.
7reer TIL Kintsugiis the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
47kX TIL Male Peacocks make fake sex noises in order to attract more females and convince them that they are sexually active