› added 3 years ago

117

TIL the song "Mah Na Mah Na" later sung by Muppets on Sesame Street was originally the theme to the Italian mondo film "Sweden: Heaven and Hell" about sexuality in Sweden including "lesbian nightclubs, porn films," and "the swinging lifestyle of married couples"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6ebX TIL that in France in Sept. 1944, Technician Robert D. Maxwell threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Though badly injured, he survived and was awarded the Medal of Honor.
m1xZM TIL an author created a 1000 page book that is made up of a single run on sentence.
e7vE TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked to direct Lord of the Rings, but he declined because he felt that the story was unfilmable.
PYdog TIL Airbnb got it's name because it used to be an air mattress company called Air Mattress B&B.
eEO4 TIL that the shredded remains of birds that get sucked into jet turbines is called “snarge”.