› added 7 years ago

473

TIL that during the 1946 election for sheriff in Athens, Tennessee a deputy refused to let an elderly black man vote. When the man dropped his ballot and ran, the deputy shot him in the back. This catalyst led to WWII veterans laying siege on the officers holed up in a prison.

Read more warhistoryonline.com

via reddit.com

gjaA TIL the Rick Ross you know is actually an impostor of the real Rick Ross who, went to jail for 20 years for trafficking drugs (millions and millions), and when he came out, discovered someone was making millions pretending to be him.
XG5Q TIL When casting his first Star Wars film, George Lucas needed a tall actor who could fit the role of Chewbacca. This led Lucas on a search which turned up Peter Mayhew, who says that all he had to do to be cast in the role of Chewbacca was stand up.
yVn6a TIL Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation, has been in print since 1802. It is so popular that it's colloquially referred to after it's original author "Bowditch". In 1867 the US government bought the copyright and has published 52 editions of it since then.
6RWl TIL the movie “Misery” is the only film adaptation of Stephen King’s work to have ever won an oscar
78nGP TIL that despite publicly denouncing the film adaptation of his novel, I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian attended movie’s premiere in 1959. A few minutes into the screening, he stood up and began shouting out his dissatisfaction with it, during which he suddenly collapsed and died.