› added 5 years ago

101

TIL that a successful ventroliquist's career ended when he switched from radio to TV as "his lips were frequently seen to move"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ANWGx TIL that The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison bought his first pair of his famous leather pants after he saw Marlon Brando wearing a snakeskin pants in the 1960 movie "The Fugitive Kind."
6Er07 TIL a man known only as "Django" drove his own boat out & freed a whale caught in a shark net off an Australian beach (without cutting the net). Before taking action, Django had waited hours for help from officials who had been called; when officials arrived, he faced a fine for acting alone.
x6QaD TIL that after starring as an unemployed man in the 1948 neorealist film Bicycle Thieves, factory worker Lamberto Maggiorani was fired from his real job - his employer assumed the film made him rich, but he was only paid $1,000 and struggled to find work again, mirroring his on-screen character.
R7bR9 TIL Van Gogh sold a total of one painting during his lifetime
6EVKm TIL that a dead pope once got put on trial in the year 897. They dug up Pope Formosus, propped his corpse up on a throne and they actually asked the fucker questions and a Deacon answered on behalf of him. And they found him guilty of perjury.