› added 3 years ago

168

TIL: Many of the most popular Christmas songs in America were written by Jewish writers

Read more deseret.com

via reddit.com

nMy7 TIL that four teenagers successfully led a campaign to ban paid toilets in the United States
yV8bV TIL that there's an Indian restaurant chain called “Oh! Calcutta”. But it bears no relation to the 1969 controversial, totally-nude, avant-garde revue which ran for 5,959 performances, which made it the longest-running revue in Broadway history at the time.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
oRmlE TIL that the term “missionary position” was likely invented by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and based on a misunderstanding of an earlier book. Regardless, the term has since been adopted into French, German, Spanish, and Dutch
DrBj TIL that Clint Eastwood insisted on removing some of the dialogue in the original script for his character ‘The Man with no Name’ in the Dollars trilogy so that it could make the character more mysterious. As the trilogy progressed the character became even more stoic and silent