› added 12 years ago

443

TIL Dave Chapelle’s black KKK character was based on his grandfather (A blind white guy, brought up by a black family).

Read more imdb.com

via bit.ly

4XXkw TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
G6b1 TIL that a Pidgin language is a makeshift language created when two people who speak different languages want to communicate, whereas a Creole language is a language that was originally a Pidgin but is now spoken among a population as their native language.
rXro TIL Quentin Tarantino offered to direct ‘Casino Royale’ with the film set it in the 50’s, make it in black and white and retain Pierce Brosnan as Bond
ANp44 TIL of coffee, was discovered by a goat, and later an Ethiopian shepherd found that his sheep were excited after eating coffee berries, and he boiled the berries to make the prototype of the first cup of coffee in history
l97A TIL JFK allegedly smoked weed in the White House, brought by family friend and American socialite Mary Meyer in July of 1962. “Suppose the Russians did something now,” Kennedy said after smoking 3 joints.