› added 10 years ago

145

TIL the Netherlands arrested a Russian diplomat for mistreating his children. Two weeks later, a senior Dutch diplomat was beaten up in his security-heavy home in Moscow by anonymous thugs.

Read more caravanmagazine.in

via reddit.com

Wkd4d TIL Ecuador, located on the equator, means 'equator' in Spanish.
R5517 TIL that the Oscar Academy wanted to give Dead Man's Chest an award/nomination for make-up, not digital effects because they were fooled into thinking that Davy Jones was Bill Nighy wearing make-up and rubber tentacles. They had to convince them it was 100% CGI.
P1QMV TIL the late Jerry and Rita Alter, a suburban New Mexico couple, allegedly stole Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985 and kept the $160 million artwork on the wall behind their bedroom door until it was found there after Rita died in 2017.
Oo9v7 TIL radiological technologist Paul Bateson inspired William Friedkin to include a medical procedure in The Exorcist which Bateson performed in the film. Bateson, active in the gay leather scene, later committed a murder and was linked to a series of murders, inspiring Friedkin to make Cruising
6E1Mw TIL that a retired teacher who had been having problems breathing for several months, after visiting doctor, found out that there was a pea plant growing in the lung.