› added 12 years ago

134

TIL Nintendo owns the patent on the “+” shaped d-pad design.

Read more pocketgamer.co.uk

via bit.ly

X0Xrr TIL that the real name of the actor we all know as Boris Karloff - famous for playing Frankenstein's monster (his 82nd role by the way!) - was William Henry Pratt, and he elected to act under a pseudonym so as not to embarass his well known, well connected and almost aristocratic English family.
O6W6 TIL that police departments can legally reject applicants for scoring too high on an I.Q. test.
P11dn TIL A modest Georgian townhouse near Trafalgar Square is the only remaining building in the world where Benjamin Franklin resided. He lived there for 16 years from 1757 to 1773.
rgAM TIL: President James A. Garfield’s killer Charles J. Guiteau bought a revolver with an Ivory grip over a cheaper wooden grip because he thought it would look better as a museum piece after the Assassination.
D1xKY TIL the clean version of Lonely Island's "Jizz In My Pants" replaces all instances of 'jizz' with the sounds of men climaxing