› added 6 years ago

359

TIL that there existed a tree swastika in a German forest that went unnoticed for nearly 60 years.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OjPL TIL of actor William Haines (1900–1973), who quit acting in 1935 when his studio employer, MGM, tried to pressure him into ending his relationship with his male partner and entering into a “lavender marriage” to hide his homosexuality. Instead, the two started a successful interior design business.
wo1Y TIL Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to drugs after he misheard the lyric “I can’t hide” as “I get high.”
m1RKx TIL Burlington, Ontario closes a section of King Road for annual migration of the Jefferson salamander.
kADe TIL A Croatian woman died in her apartment of natural causes. No one reported her missing and she was only discovered after burglars broke into her flat – 35 years later – and found her mummified body.
rZm0 TIL that President Herbert Hoover who resided over the beginning of the Great Depression had never once been elected to a government office before becoming President of the United States.