› added 11 years ago

287

TIL The skeleton found by Tuco inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery in the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.

Read more imdb.com

via reddit.com

1aJpV TIL of Ronald Alexander, who appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to accept a $500,000 donation from Lowes for his crumbling elementary school in Detroit. Months later he and 12 other principals were convicted of taking $900,000 in bribes from a school supply scam.
N7xLP TIL that there was a test several years ago where 70 undercover agents tried to sneak bombs or guns through US airport security; 67 succeeded
LJYd TIL that during the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export enormous quantities of food to England. This kept food prices far too high for the average Irish peasant to afford and was a major contributing factor in the large death toll from the famine.
GQLj TIL John Couch Adams calculated the existence of Neptune, using mathematics, before the planet was ever observed.
wAp1 TIL Peanut butter in Dutch is called “Peanut cheese” because the word butter is only supposed to be used with products that contain actual butter.