› added 3 years ago

124

TIL that Marlon Brando horrified a Superman The Movie producer in their first meeting by proposing that Jor-El appear as a green suitcase or a bagel with Brando's voice, but director Richard Donner used flattery to persuade the actor to portray Jor-El himself.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

69w0w TIL The Amazon River was named by Spanish explorer Francisco De Orellana after his 16th-century expedition was attacked by warriors led by women, whom he likened to the Amazons of Greek myth. The word "Amazon" itself may derive from an ancient Iranian term for "warrior."
0pAM TIL the first issue of Playboy in December 1953 was undated, as Hugh Hefner was not sure if there would be a second issue.
69GWZ TIL the Triforium, a six-story sculpture near Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, was supposed to track the motions and conversations of people near it and convert them into patterns of light, and also point giant lasers toward the sky spelling out "Los Angeles." But its artist designer ran out of money
WbVA TIL that a Soviet scientist named Dmitriy Belyayev has successfully domesticated foxes by selective breeding, and the foxed became more and more dog-like with each following generation.
QN8pM TIL after winning the revolutionary war George Washington resigned. “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action … I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.” The next day he left for his home, Mount Vernon.