› added 7 years ago

200

TIL Eddie Izzard ran 47 marathons in 52 days with only 5 weeks of training

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

QNRNd TIL that Charlize Theron's mother shot and killed her father in self defense in front of her. Charlize would later go on to be the first person born in Africa to win an Oscar for acting.
xbb7 TIL a WWI ace landed his biplane atop an enemy observation balloon, cut his engines, and slid off into an acrobatic maneuver leaving the balloon to erupt into flames behind him
j6BMM TIL that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't wear different colored masks, only red!
7raJX TIL that the inner columns of Windsor Guildhall don't actually touch the ceiling; Sir Christopher Wren was forced to add them at the insistence of the Council, however he made them short on purpose to prove that they were not needed in the first place.
Me6EK TIL Chris Wedge (the voice of Ice Ages Scrat) made an animated short film while in Ohio State University in 1985.