› added 1 year ago

45

TIL When (Anheuser-Busch chairman) Gussie Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals, he attempted to name their ballpark "Budweiser Stadium" and was denied due to baseball's alcohol advertising rules. In response, he named it "Busch Stadium" and launched the first Busch branded beer two years later.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8YvZ TIL The longest echo ever recorded in a man-made structure was set in an underground fuel depot constructed in Scotland before World War Two when a blank was fired from a pistol it lasted 112 Seconds.
OMoe TIL the guy who voiced Mr. Owl on the Tootsie Pop commercials, also invented the artificial heart.
MeaDm TIL A new study concludes that Wealthy, successful people from privileged backgrounds often misrepresent their origins as working-class in order to tell a ‘rags to riches’ story resulting from hard work and perseverance, rather than social position and intergenerational wealth
am89 TIL Argentina sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica, had her give birth there, and used the baby to reinforce its territorial claims
m1rMP TIL that Keith Moon (The Who) died 1978 in the same flat Cass Elliot passed away in 4 years prior. He rented it from singer Harry Nilsson who was initially hesitant because he believed it was cursed. But Pete Townshend reassured him: "Lightning won't strike the same place twice."