› added 10 years ago

317

TIL The actor who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” was the executive producer of “Iron Man”

Read more mentalfloss.com

via reddit.com

oROZW TIL that New York (57), New Jersey (56), and Pennsylvania (48), three of the original 13 colonies, have had fewer than half the number of governors of South Carolina (117), another of the original 13
NLN1 TIL: There is a longer gap in time between the invention of the motorcycle and the first backflip on motorcycle, then there is the invention of flight and us landing on the moon.
wLm4W TIL that, in December 2015, 19-year-old Bud Weisser was placed under arrest for trespassing at the Budweiser Brewery located at 9th and Arsenal in St. Louis.
gpRW TIL males receive, on average, 63% longer sentences than females for the exact same crime.
aN9 TIL That 3 divers nicknamed the “Chernobyl Suicide Squad” prevented a second explosion that would have rendered Europe “uninhabitable” by volunteering to dive into highly-radiated water beneath the reactor.