› added 2 months ago

15

TIL that there is a palaeontologist called David Schwimmer who was publishing papers throughout the time that Friends was airing

Read more researchgate.net

via reddit.com

yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
gMOWy TIL that the director of My Cousin Vinny (1992) has a law degree from Cambridge and that the film is highly regarded in the legal community for its realistic depiction of courtroom procedure and trial strategy
kR0e TIL US Ensign Chester Nimitz was court-martialed and reprimanded for grounding a destroyer in 1908. He would become Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet during WWII, and Chief of Naval Operations after the war.
4XgwN TIL Babylonian women had to, by law, consort with 1 stranger who threw a silver coin into their lap while they sat in the "District of Venus". As Babylonian women were usually tall and beautiful, some uglier women had to wait up to 4 years for their coin, before returning home.
QJPPX TIL Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu masqueraded as a woman and used a 20 year long sexual affair with a French diplomat to steal intelligence. He even purchased a child and convinced the diplomat it was his.