› added 7 years ago

83

TIL Hong Kong's independence has an expiration date. China can, based on the deals signed in 1997, reunite Hong Kong in 2047.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jNbDa TIL that Shaun Weiss, famous for playing Goldberg in the Mighty Ducks movies is now a meth addict. His mug shots are shocking and unrecognizable.
WoBo TIL Jonathan Goldsmith “The Most Interesting Man in the World” played a crewmember on the original Star Trek.
xjJD TIL a bank robber successfully used a Craigslist help-wanted ad for construction workers, specifying their uniform, to create unwitting decoys around the bank he robbed in matching uniform. His “getaway car” was an inner tube.
nK7d TIL that Novelist Stephen King said that Professor Umbridge from the Harry Potter series is the “greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter.”
Z80bR TIL that the Chowchilla kidnappers -who locked 26 children and their bus driver in a buried moving van- never got to make their ransom demands, since the phone lines to the police were occupied by worried parents and the media calling in. The victims then dug themselves out and escaped.