› added 5 years ago

217

TIL when J. R. R. Tolkien sold the movie rights for Lord of the Rings, he forbade Disney from ever becoming involved ''as long as it was possible to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing''

Read more tolkiengateway.net

via reddit.com

9YAB6 TIL that a Brazilian man announced he would be burying his $500,000 Bentley so he could use it in the after life. After alot of critique about him wasting money it turned out that it was a PR stund for organ donations.
6jOm TIL that the Aztecs considered childbirth as a form of battle, and the women who died during it were honored as fallen warriors
A1B4 TIL that humans empathetically experience pain when they see someone of the same race experience pain, but not someone of another race. All races felt pain when shown a “violet” person experiencing pain suggesting that lack of empathy for other races is learned and not innate.
R8y6 TIL The City of London, with a population of just over 7,000 residents, is one of the smallest cities in the U.K. The administrative district of Greater London, while technically not a city, is home to 8.3 million residents and is large enough to fit over 4 New Yorks and almost 50 Paris’s.
Ypn6Z TIL Abraham Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler who competed in over 300 matches, only losing once. In recent times, he was honored by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for his accomplishments.