› added 12 years ago

63

TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a staunch conservationist and banned Christmas trees from the White House

Read more magazine.magix.com

via reddit.com

gMVX7 TIL about segregation academies, private schools founded in the US after Brown v. BoE to preserve segregation. They persist, segregated to this day, many segregation academies have student bodies that are >84% white in school districts where the student body is as little as <10% white.
16nOV TIL that in addition to being a famous singer, songwriter and musician, Johnny Cash appeared in more than three dozen movies and tv shows. He also hosted Saturday Night Live in 1982.
8e6VL TIL of Japanese Olympic athlete Shizo Kanakuri (金栗 四三), who held the world record for the longest marathon run of 54 years, 8 months, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3.seconds after collapsing during the race, returning home, and finishing it decades later in his 70s.
OGVv7 TIL Mona Lisa (the painting) has its own mailbox for receiving fan mail and flowers.
aPAb TIL that while filming Hans Gruber’s death scene in Die Hard, Alan Rickman was dropped a full second before he expected to fall, resulting in the look of shock present in the film.