› added 10 years ago

750

TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse Aragorn rides in Lord of the Rings after production.

Read more lotr.wikia.com

via reddit.com

4YJX TIL that Robin William’s son, Zach Williams, has an MBA from Columbia and uses it to help educate inmates at San Quentin prison about finance
5rKn TIL when police raided a dog fighting ring in South Carolina, 8 suspects attempted to flee the scene. One of the suspects was taken into custody after one of the dogs chased him and “took him down”. The dog then escaped.
nWLDb TIL in 1973 a roulette dealer & 2 others won 5 million francs ($1 million) using a roulette ball with a receiver inside that was linked to a transmitter inside of a pack of cigarettes. When a button on the pack was pushed, the ball was guided to land on a specific part of the wheel with 90% accuracy
87ab TIL if you were a member of the Peace Corps, you are disqualified from working for military intelligence.
4wP6 TIL that Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and many other companies, paid off the rent for his house during college by hosting 1,000+ sized nightclub parties and charging an admission for entry