› added 8 years ago

115

TIL Mississippi set a speed limit of 80 miles per hour on toll roads; there are no toll roads in Mississippi.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N8oe TIL an author was once challenged that he couldn’t make a good story from two bad ideas. The ideas given were “Lost roman legion” & “Pokémon”. The resulting book became an international best seller.
QNdba TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.
W7VjA TIL that Disaster Movie (2008) is the worst rated movie on IMDB with rating 2.1
78gDx TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood
lYn7 TIL Scopolamine (Devil’s Breath) is a crazy drug used in Colombia. When given to someone, they act completely normal, but have no free will. The drugged can easily be convinced to empty out their bank accounts and hand over all their possessions without remembering in the morning.