› added 10 years ago

157

TIL that the City of São Paulo bans any public forms of advertisements. The law called “Clean City Law” or “antibillboard” which aims for a cleaner, more serene environment.

Read more worldculturepictorial.com

via reddit.com

QVXX TIL that while George Harrison was being treated for a brain tumor in Switzerland, Ringo Starr went to visit him, but had to cut his stay short to go to Boston where his daughter was undergoing brain surgery. Harrison immediately asked Starr if he should go to Boston with him.
grE1A TIL that Koji Kondo, the composer and sound director of the first game of the franchise The Legend of Zelda, had to give up the idea of using Maurice Ravel's Bolero as the soundtrack for the game, as the work was not free of rights then.
0wnMA TIL that in 1955 (at the height of the cold war), the Soviet weight lifting champion matched the Olympic record of the time with a 330.3 lb press, only to be beaten in the same competition by Paul Anderson with his 402.41 lb and 402.5 lb press. Earning respect from both USA and Soviet Union.
j6ZLQ TIL that in 2012, prior to her wrestling career, WWE’s Gigi Dolin starred in a season 1 episode of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. In the episode her family spends big money on a dress to help find her a suitable bachelor. She was 14 at the time.
rRWx0 TIL despite being worth €37.3 billion the founder of IKEA drove an old Volvo, travelled by economy class, brought a lunch box to work, visited vegetable street markets right before they closed for the day, hoping to get better prices and shopped for clothes at the local flea markets.