› added 1 year ago

54

TIL: Lutz Long a Nazi German long jumper who shared training tips to Jesse Owens and was the first to congratulate him despite being in in full view of Adolf Hitler

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8alVa TIL the sharpest object every made is a tungsten needle, which tapers down to the tip being about the size of an atom.
VLbB TIL that Mark Wahlberg had committed 20-25 offenses by the age of 21. These included throwing rocks at a bus full of black schoolchildren and knocking a Vietnamese man unconscious and blinding another. He was also addicted to cocaine by age 13.
wLvdJ TIL that when Gene Kelly was asked to direct the movie The Sound of Music, he declined saying "Go find someone else to direct this piece of sh*t"
BrjDe TIL that K2 has no local name: the British Great Trigonometrical Survey of India tried to use local names for mountains where possible, but discovered that K2 was so isolated that no one had a name for it
ykgp TIL that a software company buried a $1000 prize deep within its Terms Of Service just to see if anyone reads them. It took 5 months and 3000 sales for someone to respond