› added 4 years ago

72

TIL Before Snow White Disney made a cartoon called The Goddess of Spring,which was considered a vital stepping stone for the latter

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dpL9 TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble’s telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein’s wife nonchalantly responded, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”
gr6j8 TIL the BBC payed closely to 1.1 million pounds in restitution and 1.4 million pounds in donations, losing in the process the sole production of the Queen's Royal Christmas Message due to the famous Diana interview, which was obtained under "questionable means".
WkNj9 TIL the disclaimer that now appears at the end of every American film, (“The preceding was a work of fiction, any similarity to a living person etc.”) first appeared because Rasputin’s assassin Felix Yusupov successfully sued MGM for libel against his wife in the movie “Rasputin and the Empress”
Mee6A TIL that Mel Gibson is a benefactor of the Survivor Mitzvah Project which helps Holocaust survivors around the world around the world.
7rmZb TIL: Muscles can only pull and cannot push.