› added 9 months ago

33

TIL “Maroons” were descendants of escaped slaves who formed their own communities.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YpwEv TIL a Chipotle pepper is just a smoked jalapeño. Chipotle means "smoked pepper" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
XroQ TIL the actor who was inside R2-D2 hated the guy who played C-3PO, calling him “the rudest man I’ve ever met.”
0dbrA TIL in 2005, three lions rescued a girl of 12 kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and protecting her until she was rescued by Ethiopian police.
5YKXP TIL Kanye West owns $300k in livestock
VMA1m TIL director Peter Weir wanted to have cameras installed in behind every theater showing ‘The Truman Show’ and have the projectionist cut the power at some point during the film, cut to the viewers so they'd be watching themeselves, and then cut back to the movie.