› added 10 years ago

180

TIL Bill Gates has a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling in his house

Read more businessinsider.com.au

via reddit.com

kOZ7W TIL that in the Hawaiian language, there are over 200 different words for rain, depending on the colour, intensity, duration, accompanying wind, time of year, the paths the drops fall in, the area it falls in, and even if it falls shortly after a loved one's death.
DQG1e TIL Grant Fuhr holds the NHL record for most all-time points (all assists) for a goaltender as he played with Gretzky for a decade.
5Ygr9 TIL about Whitter, Alaska, an entire town in one building
pe8 TIL that Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name, according to her birth certificate. The use of the author’s initials instead of her full name was a marketing ploy designed to make her work acceptable to boys, who actively choose not to read books by women.
ZL5v TIL that in July of 2015, Mitchelle Blair received a life sentence without possibility for parole after torturing and murdering two of her four children, ages 9 and 13, based on claims from her youngest child that the two had molested him. She then stored their bodies in her home freezer.