› added 10 years ago

171

TIL Orson Welles once met Hitler in the 1920s at a dinner, but later described the encounter saying, “He made so little impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it. He had no personality whatsoever.”

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

v5VL TIL: In 1986 a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in the blink of an eye.
QNJME TIL that Frank Abagnale Jr, the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can starring Leo DiCaprio, may have falsified the main details and scams in the movie as he was in prison from age 17-20 in NY when most of these scams were to have taken place. Making the movie his biggest scam.
OjKg TIL ABC only aired “Clerks: The Animated Show” twice before canceling it. They aired the fourth episode first, and then aired the second episode despite the fact that the second episode is a ‘flashback’ episode, and derives much of its humor from the fact that it flashes back to the first episode.
9w6xG TIL that the United Nations has an agency dedicated to tourism
N5AJ TIL that Shell abandoned an oil well in Niger in 1977. By 2004, an estimated 20,000 barrels had leaked, polluting groundwater and ruining cropland. Clean up will cost $1bn.