› added 5 years ago

403

Today I learned Vikings might have brought an American Indian woman home with them.

Read more api.nationalgeographic.com

via reddit.com

rR4Me TIL of Ken Hechtman who as a student at Columbia stole Uranium 238 was expelled. Then proceeded to break into Area 51, Yucca Flat Test Site, and was present at Timothy McVeigh’s execution. After 9/11 he entered Afghanistan illegally and was captured by the Taliban.
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
m1j4E TIL John Rhys-Davies' stunt double in the Lord of the Rings movies, Brett Beattie, got co-credit as Gimli due to playing him in so many scenes but had the credit removed a week later because of “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli"
nWvKB TIL that in 1990, the Eastern Orthodox & Oriental Orthodox Churches concluded that their 1539 year schism (over whether Jesus had two natures joined perfectly in one incarnate union or one incarnate nature consisting of joined natures) was due to terminology confusion rather than theology
d87w8 TIL the Black Death was personified by an old woman carrying a rake and a broom. If she used the rake, some would survive in between the teeth of the rake. If she used the broom the whole population of an area would die