› added 8 years ago

174

TIL Charles Lyne, a British filmmaker, raised $8486 to force two people to watch a 10 hour 7 minute movie of paint drying. Those two people were employees of the BBFC, responsible for classifying movies, and the stunt was done to protest the BBFC’s power of censorship.

Read more mashable.com

via ift.tt

mxZ9y TIL The pyramids weren't built by slaves, but a complex system of voluntary, privileged laborers.
65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.
p8RvQ TIL of Helios Airways flight 522. A loss of cabin pressurisation incapacitated the crew, leaving the aircraft flying on autopilot - a flight attendant with flying experience used an oxygen tank to stay conscious and tried to pilot the plane
QmWL TIL Some Chinese companies hire white actors to pretend to be foreign businessmen so that the companies can seem more connected globally.