› added 5 years ago

218

TIL that the original version of Les Paul guitar nicknamed "the Log" was crafted in an Epiphone factory. Les Paul then approached Gibson but got rejected calling the prototype, "broomstick with a pickup. " It would take a decade before Gibson finally accepts the idea.

Read more premierguitar.com

via reddit.com

kKjW TIL that the first grandchild of Queen Victoria to die died in 1866 and the last to die died in 1981.
5YLYr TIL former Navy pilot and journalist Paco Chierici broke the Nimitz Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon event 2 years before the New York Times did
LQMDQ TIL the world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick? It fell in Montana in 1887 and remains the largest snowflake ever documented.
OojpX TIL: Scrum methodology was introduced by Asian men, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, in their 1986 Harvard Business Review article, 'The New New Product Development Game'.
GYbAJ TIL that Pan Am jet “Clipper Climax” featured in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Clipper Climax would later crash into a mountain in Indonesia as Pan Am Flight 812, killing everyone on board.