› added 5 years ago

77

TIL that Bulbasaur was based on a frog, not a lizard.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9YdDM TIL that Picasso would carry around a revolver loaded with blanks and fire at people inquiring about the meaning of his paintings, his theory of aesthetics, or those he simply found to be dull.
X0Q4Q TIL a vampire story older than Dracula , Leptirica (1973) adapts Milovan Glišić’s 1880 novella Posle devedeset godina (After Ninety Years), a tale about the vampire Sava Savanović published 17 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula.
mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"
dyOQ Today I learned that if a Disney cruise ship needs to be evacuated, the first people to get a lifeboat are two Disney employees dressed as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This is to ensure children that the two characters did not go down with the ship.
0WdL TIL Hall and Oates met on a service elevator while running away from a gang gun fight.