› added 13 years ago

226

TIL Hugh Heffner advocated for gay rights in the 1950’s

Read more advocate.com

via reddit.com

0OMA TIL: There’s a resort near Disney World that is just for kids with terminal illness and their families. There is no waiting list and they won’t turn away any child. It was started by a Holocaust survivor.
MANm TIL that Sean Bean has played the same character (Richard Sharpe) in 16 movies since 1993, and hasn’t even died once yet…
m156Y TIL that Stephen King allows filmmakers to license one of his non-contract stories for $1! It's referred as "dollar-babies" .
Y774A TIL Simon Wells, the great-grandson of science-fiction author H. G. Wells, co-directed An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
yyEM TIL that the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.