› added 8 years ago

159

TIL Bill Murray thinks the Hong Kong Comedy ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ was “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”

Read more gq.com

via ift.tt

E1knV TIL that Triscuit got its name in the early 1900s because it was one of the first foods to be baked with elecTRIcity
kJok1 TIL that this brief interview in the 1950s educational series "Youth Wants to Know" is the only known surviving video footage of the renowned mathematician John Von Neumann.
jNPWp TIL the Berlin Wall was opened accidentally. After being told wrong info, a Soviet spokesman stated that border crossings would be allowed, “immediately”. Crossings were actually planned to be allowed in limited circumstances. Thousands of East Germans then ran to the border and forced it open.
XZgD TIL Gandhi refused treatment of his dying wife with antibiotics that would have saved her on religious grounds and then took quinine 6 weeks later to stave off malaria
EgYxp TIL Sir Edward Kelley, an English alchemist, and John Dee, an English Mathematician and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, exchanged wives because of a conversation they claim to have had with angels