› added 2 months ago

46

TIL Louise and Martine Fokkens worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam for more than 50 years and have retired in their early 80s after sleeping with more than 335,000 men or more than population of 38 countries and territories

Read more mamamia.com.au

via reddit.com

1AAV TIL-He-Man was created because Mattel passed on Star Wars figurines because of the licensing fee.
eRD4 TIL that CERN invented HTML.
LkbOp TIL 20-yr-old Ahmed Alwan gives customers free stuff (with approval from his father) from his family's Bronx bodega if they can solve a simple math problem . For example, he'll say: "What's 9 x 9 - 5?" and then you get 5 seconds to grab anything from chips to speakers to hookahs.
78RMx TIL that prior to World War 2 Vidkun Quisling was known for helping Norwegian explorer Fritjof Nansen in humanitarian work for the Russian famine as well as Armenian genocide survivors
vlD8 TIL the last recorded words to come from inside the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were, “Uh oh.”