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TIL that disbarment for a lawyer in Wisconsin is only temporary

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4kZga TIL from 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. These laws targeted poor people and disabled people, citing reasons such as deformities, visible signs of disease or mutilations to deny access to public spaces.
gMgD4 TIL that the most famous picture of Audrey Hepburn was taken in a lunch-break during the filming of War and Peace (1956).
LZNd TIL of a rarely republished Nikola Tesla interview from 1899 called “Everything is the Light”. Tesla explains in his own words the concepts that later led to the industry shunning him.
xV6X5 TIL that Kim Jong-Il had Choi Eun-hee, a South Korean actress, and her husband Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean director, abducted and taken to North Korea to make movies to gain global recognition for North Korea's film industry.
ANXg TIL: Lemmy was offered a reality show, but he turned it down claiming he just its around by himself playing videogames, and no one would want to watch that.