› added 11 years ago

370

TIL that the Ithorian in the cantina from Star Wars has an entire backstory on why he was there

Read more starwars.wikia.com

via reddit.com

bgP0 TIL Norway is the only national football team in the world that has never lost to Brazil. (2 wins and 2 draws)
KOKLB TIL of Art-o-mat machines; specialised vending machines that dispense art, specifically the artwork of local artists. As of July 2018, there were over 100 machines around the world, and over 400 artists involved.
RRm6 TIl that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide since the war than were killed during it.
mL1E TIL A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
V8B0 TIL that the Jack Nicholson film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ was filmed in an actual mental hospital and many of the extras were actually mental patients