› added 1 year ago

55

TIL The songwriters wrote "What A Wonderful World" for Louis Armstrong because he brought people together. A record exec hated it, was kicked out after trying to stop the recording, and wouldn't promote it. A 1968 #1 hit in the UK, it was a US hit because of 1988's "Good Morning Vietnam!".

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9bNp TIL that every military working dog is always one rank higher than its handler so that mistreatment of the dog is considered assault on an officer of higher rank.
166DP TIL that the lyrics in most Elden Ring (videogame) songs are completely gibberish and void of meaning. They are computer generated and adjusted to sound like an ancient language.
vdYx TIL that Bea Arthur (Golden Girls Dorothy) was a truck driving Marine.
OX16 TIL President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963. It was the last film he ever saw, he was killed the next day in Dallas.
8aeaG TIL the Teenage Mutant Turtles and Daredevil both gained their powers from the same accident