› added 2 months ago

10

TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period that produced controversial movies between the invention of sound in films and enforcement of the MPA

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

JGo1 TIL the second most successful actor (behind Jerry Seinfeld) is a Bollywood actor by the name of Shah Rukh Khan, and has a net worth around US $600 million.
vPKm7 TIL that Ethiopia was one of the world's strongest empires during the 3rd century CE, being labeled as one of the 4 Great Powers of the time alongside Persia, Rome, and China. Ethiopia was also one of the first countries to convert to Christianity
9Mjp TIL that asparagus can grow up to 7" in a day, and a farmer can harvest spears more than once a day from the same plant.
KO114 TIL of Arthur Brown, one of Utah’s first two senators elected by their legislature in 1896 after gaining statehood who, after leaving office, was charged with adultery multiple times and shot and killed by his mistress who was acquitted for reasons of temporary insanity.
bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West