› added 9 months ago

38

TIL that in 2005, Roy E. Disney ousted then-CEO Micheal Eisner alleging mismanagement, neglect of the studio's animation division, failures with ABC, and a corporate mentality in the executive structure that turned the Walt Disney Company into a “rapacious and soulless” conglomerate.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ljQN TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England…for about 5 weeks.
Wk4m4 TIL that all SI base units of measurement are written in lowercase, except for those named after people, Kelvin and Ampere
6DWw TIL In 1917, the U.S. War Industries Board asked women to stop buying corsets to free up metal for war production. This was said to have saved some 28,000 tons of metal, enough to build two battleships.
P1PBV TIL about Ryleyev Kondraty Fodorovich a poet who was sentenced to be hung for this role in the Decembrist Uprising. The rope broke which usually led to a pardon, seen as divine intervention but he said, "In Russia not know how to do anything properly, not even how to make a rope." He was hung again
xkPb TIL That Alan Turing (who created a precursor to the modern computer), committed suicide in 1954. Two years prior, he had been “convicted” of homosexuality, in which he was forced to undergo hormonal treatments and lost security clearance to continue his research.