› added 3 years ago

250

TIL Brad Pitt was banned from China for nearly 20 years after starring in Seven Years in Tibet

Read more faroutmagazine.co.uk

via reddit.com

OGbQX TIL in 2012 a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend from 12 years ago had been living in her attic for about two weeks. Her adult sons & nephew found him asleep in the back of the attic which caused him to flee. They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.
0gav TIL that Paul Shaffer, of the Late Show With David Letterman, wrote the song “It’s Raining Men”
PJPL TIL: The director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13 year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges, this is why his 2011 film Carnage staring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly although set in New York was actually filmed in Paris.
161Y8 TIL that George Carlin was a court-martialed Air Force Vet, Grammy-winning comedian, children's TV actor, and the 1st host of SNL. His arrest for performing the routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" placed him at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation
GyPg TIL 52 years ago today the first television signal transmitted via satellite was sent by MIT from CA to MA.