› added 6 years ago

498

TIL During WWII Hitler ordered the British town of Blackpool be spared from bombing as he intended it to be his personal holiday resort after Germany had won the war

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via reddit.com

Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
WkAZA TIL we can't exactly determine someone's age scientifically
a8Yky TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.
Lkokr TIL that Johnny Cash caused a forest fire which burned hundreds of acres and killed 49 of the area's 53 endangered California Condors, nearly wiping them out in the region
BrmJD TIL that Dreamworks consulted over 300 religious’ experts for The Prince of Egypt. This included biblical scholars, theologians, archeologists, Egyptologists, clergy and different religious leaders.