› added 1 year ago

673

TIL that Brian Peck, a former dialogue coach and convicted sex offender, was pen pals with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. When Gacy was on death row, he sent Peck an autographed painting of a clown, which Peck framed in his house.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

LQmPZ TIL WWE commentator Sean Michael Coulthard, also known as Michael Cole, worked as a journalist for CBS Radio covering the Waco siege and the Yugoslavian civil war.
VMDB TIL that the digits of your fingers are sized roughly by the golden ratio. But even cooler, when you uncurl a fist, the trajectory of your fingertips follow the golden spiral.
Wk1GN TIL a plan to restore a small islands ecosystem severely backfired when cats were brought to the island to fend off a rat invasion, and rabbits to supply food for stranded seamen. This resulted in the islands vegetation stripped 40% bare and two species of birds being exterminated.
e08r6 TIL that both South Korea and the Maldives once used the tune of Scottish song "Auld Lang Syne" for their anthems. South Korea inherited it from Scottish missionaries. The poet behind the Maldives' anthem, for his part, chose the music after hearing it chiming out of an uncle's novelty clock
wR9Y TIL that Bob Ross had an intense feud with his art teacher, William Alexander, who grew so frustrated with Bob Ross that he said: ‘He betrayed me…I invented 'wet on wet.’ I trained him and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.“