› added 1 year ago

43

TIL after Amanda Berry disappeared in 2003, a self-proclaimed psychic, Sylvia Browne, went on television and determined that Berry was dead and was "in water." Amanda Berry was found alive in 2013 after escaping the home of a man who imprisoned her and two other women for over a decade.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QJ4JE TIL There are no mosquitos in Iceland
J1mEV TIL that British actor Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) would apologize to his co-star Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) while filming their scenes because of the awful behavior of his character; Dinklage was (according to Dance) the "most adorable man"
px5p TIL Quentin Tarantino’s father abandoned him at the age of two. But after his son’s success as a director, he started doing direct-to-DVD movies with the father of Al Pacino so the movie boxes could say “Pacino and Tarantino in…..”
rREK1 TIL that in 2015, the US Air Force bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan for over an hour, and offered $6,000 in condolences to each of the families of the 42 dead.
woJvY TIL of the Comuta-Car, an electric vehicle built in the 1970s that had a max speed of around 40 mph and a range of 40 miles (64 km). Starting in 1982, some kits may have been sold for people to build the cars at home.