› added 10 years ago

125

TIL that a guy once required a desk made of Lego in his employment contract and that his employer actually held up their end of the deal

Read more ericharshbarger.org

via reddit.com

kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
D171Y TIL an actress from Scarface freaked out during a bloody scene. She went home & claimed she had seen something she shouldn’t have. Shortly afterwards, she disappeared & was never seen again.
RNoa TIL Walking Dead’s Michonne had her origin story published in Playboy explaining who the two chained up walkers she kept as pets were.
RBa TIL that Danny DeVito produced Pulp Fiction.
XYEr TIL If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side.