› added 5 years ago

99

TIL the now-forgotten Booth Tarkington was once considered one of the greatest American novelists, mentioned in the same breath as Mark Twain

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YJLA TIL No US president was an only child
d8EpZ TIL Several of James Bond's Impossible Feats Were Lifted Directly From The Missions of Operatives That Ian Fleming Knew During WWII
YVpx TIL that Vince McMahon (WWE Owner) said of one of his stepdads that beat his mother “It’s unfortunate he died before I could have killed him”
kJaAm TIL that International Shooting Union barred women from shooting with men in 1993, after Zhang Shan won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting in 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
glPb TIL-When Walt Disney was making Snow White as the first full length animated cartoon there were concerns that the “bright colors of the animations may damage people’s eyesight”.