› added 8 years ago

83

TIL crucifixion is legal punishment in the United Arab Emirates

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

wLnw6 TIL of the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, caused by a ship full of ammonium nitrate catching fire, was so large that the ship's anchor serves as a memorial to the explosion where it landed... a mile and a half inland.
Qkvd TIL: That in 1955, Quaker Oats Company gave away legal deeds to tiny parcels of land in Alaska in boxes of cereals
JXZQ TIL Clint Eastwood booted Phillip Kaufamn as director of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and assumed the job himself. In response the Directors Guild of America created the Eastwood Rule that prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then becoming the director himself.
MeNEa TIL: Franklin W. Dixon, who wrote the Hardy Boys books, wasn't a single individual. Instead, a publishing house used the pseudonym to have multiple people produce a lot books quickly. The Nancy Drew books worked the same way.
W7wvY TIL that Packers Legend Tony Canadeo, who only played for the Green Bay Packers, is in the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.