› added 11 years ago

255

TIL Melinda French initially was put off when Bill Gates requested a date he set for a couple weeks in the future. She then realized he was so busy with meetings, he had to schedule a date accordingly. She then agreed. They were married 6 years later.

Read more biography.com

via reddit.com

WDKY TIL One of the most important Medieval innovations was the horse collar, which allowed horses to use their full strength to pull loads or to plow and which only came to Europe around 920 AD.
QxDk TIL that in the wake of the Katrina disaster, police from the New Orleans suburb of Gretna blocked desperate evacuees from crossing a bridge over the Mississippi River, turning back hundreds by firing guns in the air over the crowd.
gmDy TIL Babylon 5 switched commanders after season one because the actor playing Commander Sinclair had paranoid delusions. Creator J. Michael Straczynski kept it a secret until 2013 after the actor had passed away.
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
wMlE TIL that Cheech Marin beat both Anderson Cooper (Yale graduate) and Aisha Tyler (Dartmouth graduate) at Celebrity Jeopardy.