› added 13 years ago

123

TIL Disney was sued by hyena researches for defamation of character because of their negative portrayal of hyenas in The Lion King.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
awMlL TIL about the Oorang Indians, An all-Native American NFL team put together as a marketing gimmick to sell Airedale Terriers
grRGy TIL that William the Conqueror died of internal injuries as a result of his horse throwing his "protruding stomach" onto the forward part (pommel) of the saddle. He also had his possessions ransacked by his servants who left his body naked on the floor of his home.
W6EL TIL there is a 1200 acre lake that is super heated by a coal burning power plant, even in zero degree temperatures the water never dips below 50 degrees.
jeDE TIL Director Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element as a novel when he was 16 years old. Twenty-two years later, it opened as the #1 movie in America.