› added 2 months ago

20

TIL that David Lynch's homages to "The Wizard of Oz" in his films (like "Wild at Heart") were ways to echo his obsession: “There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about ‘The Wizard of Oz,'" he said in 2001 at a New York Film Festival Q&A.

Read more indiewire.com

via reddit.com

mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
y6ba TIL Ancient Roman coins were found buried underneath a remote castle in Japan. Archaeologists still have no idea how they got there.
YpQ4B Today I learned that pixie dust in Peter Pan was added later on because children reading the story would think they too could fly like Peter Pan. Apparently there was a rash of young children hurting themselves by trying to fly like pan
xVn77 TIL that Henry VIII pestered Anne Boleyn for seven YEARS before she slept with him.
VW14 TIL Mississippi leads all states in percentage of same-sex couples raising children (26%) even though it doesn’t allow for same-sex adoption. Salt Lake City leads all cities (25%) even though same-sex adoption was illegal until October 2014.