› added 4 years ago

96

TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

R76Rl TIL the comedy folk band 'The Lancashire Hotpots' were ordered to take "Olympics" out of the title of their song "The Beer Olympics" due to copyright claims by the IOC. They then retitled the song "The Beer International Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Sporting Quad Yearly Event"
6E4MQ TIL that German film director Werner Herzog nearly took LANSA Flight 508, but canceled at the last minute. The plane was struck by lightning, killing 91 of 92 crew members and passengers. The lone survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, whose story was told in Herzog's documentary Wings of Hope.
XExKQ TIL Bryan Fuller, creator of the Hannibal TV show, grew up in a region called the Lewis Clark Valley that was stalked by an actual serial killer. He says adults knew who the killer was but no one stopped him
b9EMa TIL that UK supermarket chains source their bottled water in the same place
YxRr TIL in the native language of Papua New Guinea (Pidgin) the word helicopter translates to ‘Mixmaster blong Jesus Christ’ referring to a helicopter looking like a cooking utensil belonging to Jesus Christ.