› added 7 years ago

153

TIL that after a man received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, he went on to marry the donor's widow and then eventually killed himself in the exact same way the donor did.

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

PYQ5g TIL that Christopher Lee was once driving through Italy with his wife when their car had a puncture. He went for help, but fell into a ditch and got covered in mud. He reached a house and knocked on the door. The owner opened it, shrieked and fainted. They’d seen a Dracula film the night before.
l7L5G TIL Herb Alpert is the only musician in history to have reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and as an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979)
D1GZe TIL after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart started her own fashion line. Unconventional materials such as parachute silk and textile from airplane wings were used in some designs, and she gave a nod to her love of aviation with buttons shaped like propellers.
QNyrX Today I learned of the 1788 specialized dictionary "A Classical History of the Vulgar Tongue", by Francis Grose which includes 500 plus pages of virtually all the best lowbrow slang, dirty words and rude insults to be found in 18th century language.
LQ7Pm TIL about Bowie Bonds, securities backed by David Bowie's pre-1990 albums. They paid 7.9% interest with a 10-year average life, beating the 6.37% return on 10-year Treasuries at the time. But with the rise of music piracy, Moody's downgraded them from A3 to Baa3, just above junk status.