› added 12 years ago

236

TIL MJ was a fan of Weird Al’s, but specifically requested he not parody “Black or White” because he felt the message was too important.

Read more wikipedia.org

via bit.ly

6EvNm TIL over 1000 toads exploded in Hamburg as a result of crows pecking out their livers: terrified toads puffed up to scare away their attackers but with a hole in their bellies & no liver, they swelled up to ~4x their normal size, their lungs burst and the rest of the organs shot straight out of them
O00a TIL a man attempted to cash a $95,000 junk check he received in the mail as spam…it worked
wBRM TIL that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was the first person to become a billionaire by being an employee and not a company founder (or heir).
5VrgD TIL that Halloween in early 19th Century America was a night of pranks, tricks, illusions and anarchy.
X6ek TIL Keanu Reeves donated all his earnings (> $35 mil) from The Matrix to his special effects team, it made all of them multi-millionaires.