› added 5 months ago

229

TIL that, before portraying Radar in MAS*H, Gary Burghoff drummed for a band known as the Relatives alongside future actress (and Wonder Woman star) Lynda Carter.

Read more remindmagazine.com

via reddit.com

aWR0 TIL Jim Varney had a photographic memory and would shoot up to 25 “Ernest” commercials a day inserting different product names during different takes.
VMpd0 TIL Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime — about 800 pages per year — with 400 further publications appearing posthumously. His collected works and correspondence are still not completely published
x64X0 TIL that in 2009, a campaign succeeded in making Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' the Christmas number 1 best-selling single in the UK after the public grew tired of X Factor winners topping the chart every year.
veyD TIL that the switch from $1 bills to $1 coins would save American taxpayers approximately $4.4 billion in the next 30 years. This is because coins are significantly more durable than paper bills.
ANol4 TIL 1 out of 3 Americans live in just four states. California, Texas, Florida, and New York.