› added 6 years ago

162

TIL When President Harry S. Truman visited Disneyland in 1957, he refused to come aboard the popular Dumbo attraction. Truman, a Democrat, didn’t want to be seen riding in the symbol of the Republican Party.

Read more disneyparks.disney.go.com

via reddit.com

ylM8 TIL in 1992, a dancer from the Philippines was admitted to a Japanese hospital and died a week later from hepatitis. When her body was flown back and her coffin opened for the funeral, her family found she was stabbed and beaten to death.
OgL4 TIL the Mona Lisa was painted with eyebrows and eyelashes, but they disappeared over time, possibly the result of over-cleaning.
x7w7 TIL Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Installed a English Electric Lightning F1A Jet Fighter in His Front Garden. However, It was Removed on the Orders of the Local Council, to which Clarkson said “[They] wouldn’t believe my claim that it was a leaf blower.”
oRZA8 TIL that in 1910-1911, Olive Susan Miranda Temple, a Scottish writer and traveller, journeyed 3,700 miles through parts of Africa little known to Europeans to visit her fiancé's grave, and later published a book based on her observations.
orrA TIL the ancient Greeks had a wine glass to ensure the drinker’s moderation