› added 4 years ago

193

TIL that the actors who play Mr. Bean and Dr. House (Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie) starred together in a British historical comedy called Blackadder where they are barely recognizable

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

R7m6Q TIL about long-time nuclear waste warning messages, including a "landscape of thorns whose shape suggests danger and bodily harm".
d8Vj9 TIL of McArthur Wheeler who, in 1995, robbed two Pittsburgh banks with his face covered with nothing but lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras on the principle of invisible ink
op8o TIL - To demonstrate the sharpness of stone tools, Archaeologist Dr. Adrien Hannus elected to have major surgery done with obsidian blades rather than surgical steel scalpels. Obsidian is the sharpest substance known to mankind.
Bga0L TIL An American Bootlegger, Murderer and Prison Escapist named Joseph Henry Loveless was murdered in 1916 with his dismembered body left in a cave in Utah until it was discovered in 1979. Only to be positively identified in 2019.
GdgG TIL that Amazon named a building after its first customer who spent $27