› added 6 years ago

112

TIL in Washington State, it is illegal to kill Bigfoot/Sasquatch... despite it being a fictional species.

Read more news.nationalgeographic.com

via reddit.com

6EgeX TIL that George RR Martin is a big fan of football, but not of Coach Belichick and the Patriots. In "A Dance with Dragons", he even references the 2007 Superbowl where the Patriots fell after a perfect season to the Giants, naming a character "Belichio" who gets eaten by giants.
O09g TIL Natalie Portman in an interview for Black Swan said ‘How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller?’ And the answer is a lesbian scene. Everyone wants to see that.”
QJpQ6 TIL that Seth Macfarlane based Stewie's voice on Rex Harrison
D1gAP TIL that a nun in a convent in France began to meow like a cat; shortly afterwards other nuns also meowed. At last all the nuns meowed together every day for several hours. They finally stopped after they were informed that they will be whipped until they promised not to meow any more.
X84X TIL when Norway was occupied by Germany during WWII, the Nazis instituted the Lebensborn program, under which Norwegian women were coerced into having the children of Nazi officers. The most famous Lebensborn child is Frida Lyngstad of the band ABBA.