› added 5 months ago

17

TIL that director Nicholas Ray claimed his marriage with his wife Gloria Grahame ended after he found her in bed with his 13 year old son Tony from a previous marriage. Gloria married Tony a decade later.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYJYQ Today I learned that People did not know how many sequels some older book series have. Did you know Oz is 14 books long?
gvy TIL “sex boxes” exist in Zurich - places where men can park their cars to have sex with prostitutes without disturbing the neighborhood
VM614 TIL in 1911, a journalist named Ambrose Bierce wrote the Devil's Dictionary which re-defines common words with a touch of sarcasm and satire.
R7mN7 TIL Scholars of Mesoamerica are increasingly skeptical of the idea that the Aztecs viewed Cortes as a "God" and believe it was a myth invented by the Spanish in the years following the conquest. The myth became so accepted that it even made its way into indigenous sources like the Florentine Codex.
nWNQd TIL about the Gilmi Glider incident, in which passenger plane Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight due to a series of failures - including two broken fuel indication systems, a confusion between pounds and kilos, and a technician accidentally undoing a repair to the fuel systems.