› added 7 years ago

7953

TIL Jean-Paul Sartre hallucinated seeing crabs for most of his life after taking mescaline.

Read more nytimes.com

via ift.tt

VyG TIL Dan Aykroyd witnessed MIBs in an SUV while shooting a UFO special WHILE talking to Britney Spears on the phone. UFO special was then cancelled 2 hours later. (at 3:00)
JYwL1 TIL in 1940 Soviet secret police executed 22,000 Poles. After the war, Germany was blamed for the massacre and several German servicemen were falsely convicted at Allied trials after forced confessions. The real details of the executions did not come to light until 1989.
kJard TIL Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin wrote the Mission:Impossible theme for the 1960s TV series. The main rhythm is based on the Morse code for the letters M and I (--..) in a 5/4 time signature.
Anon TIL that Greenland is actually part of North America, is ruled by Denmark, and is icier than Iceland.
epZJL TIL that food companies can mark a product as zero calories if a single serving contains less than 5 calories