woAKP TIL that Gucci's iconic cane handles and use of materials like hemp and jute were thanks to the trade embargo placed on Italy by the League of Nations under Mussolini's rule. This was a way to circumvent the limited access to materials like leather.
R5wn4 TIL even when adjusted for inflation, the budgets of the three original Indiana Jones films combined is still less compared to 2023's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
W7exN TIL that Charles Hernu, the French defence minister who ordered the bombing of the Greenpeach ship 'Rainbow Warrior' in 1985, was a KGB agent.
9wKQM TIL about the Lost Apple Project, a nonprofit organization that searches abandoned farms in the Pacific Northwest to locate old apple varieties that have been thought to be lost or extinct. There were approximately 17k varieties of apples in the US, but only about 4.5k are known to exist today
nW8mo TIL that Ross Bagdasarian Jr., son of Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Sr., revived the group after an LA DJ played a sped-up version of "Call Me" by Blondie, claiming it was a new Chipmunks single as a joke, leading to high demand for the fake single
4koLg TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
x6Aa5 TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
5VoQ9 TIL a Chinese man was thought to have died from a lightning strike until his body exploded at his cremation. A piece of metal was found leading to the discovery that a weather rocket, meant to break up hail, had failed to explode & had fallen through the man's roof acting like a bullet, killing him.
M74M0 TIL that Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees kept getting their breast milk stolen
0dm9p TIL when Arnold Schwarzenegger auditioned for the movie Hercules in New York (his film debut), his agent said he had years of "stage" experience, implying theater, when he had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.
j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
LQxMV Today I learned that the lyrics of "baby owl" are actually the lyrics of "baby i'll rule"