› added 5 years ago

319

TIL that the most famous picture of Audrey Hepburn was taken in a lunch-break during the filming of War and Peace (1956).

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

epV06 TiL that the comedian Red Skelton painted in his free time, eventually earning $2.5 million yearly on lithograph sales. At the time of his death, his art dealer said that Skelton had earned more money through his paintings than from his work as an entertainer.
dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
gdo9 TIL the Finnish make a traditional beer that has the distinct taste of banana
PYglJ TIL that violence in Filipino karaoke bars has lead to owners specifically employing gay or effeminate men, or transwomen, who use humor to defuse conflicts between male patrons over women, since they are seen as neutral.
GY051 TIL when John Carpenter was at University he was required to visit a mental institution and saw a boy with a blank, pale, emotionless face who eventually became the inspiration for Michael Myers in his Halloween movies.