› added 5 years ago

52

TIL Iron Maiden lead singer, Bruce Dickinson is considered a polymath by Intelligent Life magazine due to excelling in a wide variety of pursuits. He is a commercial pilot, presented shows on radio and TV, written novels, brews his own beer and was once ranked 7th in Great Britain for fencing.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

W5nX TIL there is a Finnish Christmas film called Rare Export in which Santa Claus is a killer monster
jNpmj Today I learned that Germany actually surrendered twice at the end of the WW2. One being 8th and the other 9th of May. This was due to the fact that Stalin inserted terms to make the Soviet contribution to the victory bigger.
ErXV TIL Alexander the Great had heterochromia iridum. One of his eyes was blue and the other was brown.
lAZK TIL: Tinnunculite is a naturally occurring material that only forms when Falcons poop directly into burning coal mines as they fly.
rNk6d TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.