DQmdg TIL about Sacheen Littlefeather: An American woman with Mexican ancestry, whose lies about being Native American were discovered after her death at 75.
vPMa7 TIL That even though Rob Zombie appeared as a character in Twisted Metal 4 in addition to contributing music and a music video to it, he didn't voice his own character. Jon St. John of Duke Nukem fame did.
J1mj4 TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day
pY1rb TIL that the Mpemba effect is a phenomenon where hot water can freeze faster than cold water under certain conditions, contradicting our intuition about thermodynamics.
GAmpj TIL That the last time all living humans were on Earth simultaneously was October 31st, 2000. Since that day, there has always been astronauts in space.
16KRd TIL of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer in 1925 who got trapped. During rescue attempts hundreds of cave explorers and tourists stood outside the cave. The cool air caused them to light campfires that disrupted the ice within the cave. Directly causing the cave passage to collapse leading to his death
oRorE TIL 617 combined cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD), survived sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), and traumatic sudden death occurred during football-specific activities (or up to 1 hour afterwards) in 67 different countries from 2014-2018.
dDN0B TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".
KYm0a TIL NBC's Today Show used to have a chimpanzee mascot named J. Fred Muggs, who is still alive today at 73 years old.
a8Pvb TIL there is no evidence that a first responder has actually experienced an fentanyl overdose from accidental exposure
ZpRDo TIL The 2001 film The Cat’s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, dramatizes the scandalous 1924 death of film mogul Thomas Ince on William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. With Charlie Chaplin allegedly flirting with Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, many believe Hearst meant to shoot Chaplin—but hit Ince instead.
78mGx TIL that in 1989 Val Kilmer punched and threw actress Caitlin O’Heaney to the floor during an audition for the lead female role of The Doors. There was not any punching in the scene Oliver Stone laughed about it and the company wrote her a check for $24,500 to not discuss the allegations publicly.