› added 10 months ago

29

TIL Alfred Hitchcock was jailed at the age of 6 because his father sent him to a police station with a note attached to his clothes requesting the jailing after Alfred committed some childish misdeed.

Read more sothebys.com

via reddit.com

4Xmb TIL that Dory’s nosebleed was the first time that blood was animated into an Pixar film.
yyml TIL an area with no prior history of earthquakes was rocked with more than 100 earthquakes after a single year of a fracking operation.
A7Zd TIL there’s a game where the players actively try to avoid hearing the results of the Superbowl for as long as possible. One player claims to still not know who won the 2012 game.
xVJB5 TIL of Northwest Airlines Flight 188. The pilots got distracted and overflew their destination by 150 miles.
ZAwB TIL That In the American Civil War, soldiers were required to have at least four opposing front teeth so they could open a gunpowder pouch. Some draftees had their front teeth removed to avoid service.