› added 10 years ago

3670

TIL Hooters offered employees the chance to win a Toyota. When the winning waitress was given a “toy Yoda” action figure as a prank she sued and won enough to “pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants.”

Read more usatoday30.usatoday.com

via reddit.com

9Ym6r TIL James Doohan from Star Trek received a suicide note from a fan. He told her he wanted to see her at his next con. She began to visit him multiple cons before he lost contact with her. 8 years later he got a letter of thanks from her and saying she now had a masters in electrical engineering.
9wpRB TIL that in Major League Baseball history, of the roughly 218, 400 games played across it's history, there has only been 8 occurrences in which the starting pitcher pitched a complete game shutout and hit a solo homerun, for a 1-0 win.
16yKX TIL test audiences didn't like the original ending of Fatal Attraction because Glenn Close's character framed Michael Douglas' character for murder & took her own life. They wanted her to get what "she deserved." Director Adrian Lyne reportedly only agreed to film a new ending when paid $1.5 million
ZpvKG TIL that jesters were tasked with delivering unfavorable news to kings that others were reluctant to share. in 1340 following the destruction of the French fleet by the English the French King's jester informed him that the English sailors lacked the courage to jump into the water like the French.
LkbXQ TIL that until 1999, Montana had rural highways without daytime speed limits