› added 12 years ago

85

TIL that a jazz bassist named Ron Carter has appeared in over 2,500 albums, making him one of the most recorded bassists in jazz history.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZpgBB TIL Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" after reading Nizami Ganjavi's poem - "Layla and Majnun"
X0kWX TIL: SS Christopher Columbus, the only 'Whaleback' ship ever built for passenger service, carried more passengers in her 40-year career than any other ship on the Great Lakes.
nWN5B TIL Warren Delano, the grandfather of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, was one of the most successful opium smugglers in China.
bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building
neZQ7 TIL the National Park Service has officially advised against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack, ‘even if the friendship has run its course’