› added 8 years ago

281

TIL: In 2008 two judges were found to be accepting money from two juvenile detention centres in return for increasing the number of residents, offences were as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, or shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart .

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

r8M1 TIL the dog who played Air Bud was also Comet on Full House
ANaW4 TIL The only North Korean restaurant in Europe was located in Amsterdam
wLGwW NASA has successfully tested an advanced air-to-air photographic technology in flight, capturing the first-ever images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft in flight.
d41r TIL - Many major pop hits of the 90s and 2000s were produced/written by the same guy
l7OYa TIL that the plot of “West Side Story” was conceived by Jerome Robbins in the 1940s when his then-boyfriend, Montgomery Clift, suggested a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet but with gangs in New York. The idea stuck with Jerome, who called Clift a “theatrical genius” early in their affair.