› added 4 years ago

363

TIL Vincent Van Gogh moved back into his parents’ house at 30. He was unaccomplished, distracted by prostitutes, and thought he was hot shit.

Read more vincentvangogh.org

via reddit.com

QJ176 TIL of Jared Ream, card-carrying member of American Coaster Enthusiasts. At 430 lbs, he got rejected from Cedar Point's "Millenium Force", unable to buckle the restraint. The desire to ride Kings Island's new giga-coaster "Orion" motivated him to lose 190 lbs, so he was able to ride coasters again.
nWxOd TIL: Rhode Island is not an island. It's a state of the US. But there is a Rhode Island island within Rhode Island state, also called Aquidneck Island.
5Gv9 TIL a Kyle Brennan died from a gunshot wound while visiting his Scientologist father. It was declared suicide, however Kyle’s fingerprints were not on the weapon, the bullet was missing, his laptop data was deleted, no suicide note was left and his father called David Miscavige’s sister before 911.
l7eya TIL that a small herd of cows in Germany were trained to use special toilets in an effort to curb pollution
Wk7Wo TIL, in Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers