› added 10 years ago

157

TIL When Bono was 14, his mother died at her father’s funeral

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

gM8B9 TIL that Duke, the Great Pyrenees, has been elected not once, not twice, but three times as mayor of Cormorant, MN, US. And that he’s not the only animal current serving as an elected city official.
D1KQe TIL about the Frenchman Philippe Petit. In 1971 he was 45 minutes on a wire that was stretched between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. At one point, he even lay down on the wire.
YNrW TIL that Princess Leia’s iconic double-bun hairstyle was inspired by ‘soldaderas’ - Mexican revolutionary rebel fighters from the turn of the 20th century
KL6J TIL Actress Virginia Hey (Zhaan from Farscape) suffered 3 years of kidney bleeding from the blue makeup she wore for the show.
YX4G TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.