› added 9 months ago

31

TIL when the emperor of Japan announced the surrender at the end of WW2 he did it in extremely formal and archaic words, the equivalent of an English speaker using Shakespearean language

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0dvAA TIL "Union Pacific" retroactively won the first Palme d'Or. It was awarded by a jury in 2002, from a selection of films originally in competition at the cancelled 1939 Cannes Festival.
P79L TIL the first person diagnosed with autism is still alive and living in Mississippi.
b91gj TIL Boston wasn't a band when 'More than a Feeling' became a hit
Eokd TIL That there is a Military Weapons testing area roughly the same size as England, In the middle of the Australian desert
4XZD6 TIL that the movie 'Salt of the Earth' which is based in a true story of a 15 month-long strike and it was blacklisted by Hollywood because the writer, the director and the producer were alleged members of the Communist party and the actress Rosaura Revueltas was deported for being in this movie,