› added 3 years ago

142

TIL That Jamie Lee Curtis is a Baroness (styled The Right Honourable The Lady Haden-Guest).

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

4X8ow TIL that in 1964 the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. blackmail tapes and an anonymously written letter that attempted to convince him to commit suicide
PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
6AgZ TIL The Bush family owns land in South America that sits atop a water reserve (aquifer) that could supply the world with 200 years of fresh drinking water.
yQmX8 TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland
d8xJB TIL: After returning from the moon the crew of Apollo 11 had to go through US customs at Honolulu airport after splashdown. Their declaration stated three crew, no passengers and moon rock and moon dust samples as cargo.