› added 9 years ago

273

TIL there’s a conspiracy theory that Belgium doesn’t exist

Read more zapatopi.net

via reddit.com

r0ve TIL the famous “Piracy. It’s a crime” advert used the music in it illegally as it did not have the rights to the song
XEOv8 TIL that Polynesians may have traveled to the Americas in pre-columbian times. Sweet potatoes originated from the Americas were found in the islands when Cpt. Cook discovered them. The Maori word for sweet potato "kumala" is almost the same as the Quechuan's word "k'umara" for sweet potato.
y6Bl TIL that a Chicago man bought a car in his ex-girlfriend’s name and - after the breakup - abandoned it, illegally parked, in O'hare airport. The car then accumulated over $100,000 on 678 parking tickets, which the city asked the ex-girlfriend to pay.
Vv7Z TIL When Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong fame, went to prison for conspiring to distribute drug paraphernalia, his cellmate was Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.
w5Ao TIL Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany, due to the difficulty importing Coca Cola syrup