› added 8 years ago

119

TIL on New Year’s Eve, 1999, Brad Pitt rented a Mexican resort, filled it with his friends and at midnight had the government cut the power and phone lines and send in troops to raid the compound and “arrest” one of his best friends on drug charges - all as a practical joke!

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

JYZdv TIL the first elected female Member of Parliament in UK was Constance Markievicz. Elected in 1918 as a member of Sinn Féin, she didn't take up her seat in opposition to British policy and treatment of the Irish.
mmvR TIL that in August 2001 actor James Woods reported to authorities 4 suspicious males on his flight. Those males were the 911 hijackers on a dry run.
d7lB TIL in the Guns & Roses track ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, they weren’t sure how to end the track. While Axl was listening to the loop he was saying to himself 'Where do we go now?’. The Producer suggested they just use that to fill the breakdown.
LLZ TIL that when Rudolph Diesel produced his engine in 1896, he assumed that it would run off of vegetable and seed oils - especially hemp.
woOjM TIL the lil bumps at the back of some toothbrushes is actually for the tongue