› added 12 years ago

175

TIL the average person doesn’t know the opposites of the following words: Always, Coming, From, Take, Me, Down…

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9XvM TIL Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra couldn’t stand each other. On the set of Guys and Dolls, Sinatra referred to Brando as “Mumbles,” so in a scene where Sinatra had to eat cheesecake Brando kept deliberately screwing up his lines so Sinatra had to keep eating more and more cheesecake in retakes.
Oo44L TIL: Scientists have thought the melting and forming of ice sheets around the world changed the distribution of mass around the planet enough to shift the polar axis. Since 2000, the Earth's axis has jumped eastward by about 7 inches a year”
enP6 TIL a theater manager in South Korea felt that “The Sound of Music” was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.
Ng5Q TIL, the youngest soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Dan Bullock was 15 years old
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."