› added 9 years ago

254

TIL when composing the song “‘39”, Queen guitarist Brian May jokingly asked bassist John Deacon to play the double bass on the recording. Deacon didn’t got the joke and actually learned the instrument. In two days.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

DQonV TIL Florida's Punta Gorda Airport has a plane fire simulator that looks really real as you drive by on the highway.
lxD5 TIL, that during the Italian invasion of France, 9 French soldiers defended the Pont Saint Louis against 5000 Italians for 10 days - of which 700 Italians were killed or injured. Eventually an Armistice was agreed.
WnaL TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats
bpwa TIL Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in ‘something like 1990’, seven years before the release of the first book.
pjDG TIL that Bill Gates tried to give Bolivia thousands of chickens and in doing so greatly offended the Bolivian government