› added 8 years ago

194

TIL that Disney Owned Miramax for a time, technically making Pulp Fiction a Disney film.

Read more disneyexaminer.com

via ift.tt

R7Bwl TIL that during WW2, nickel was so important for producing armour plating that the US stopped using it to make nickels - and used silver instead.
dXXK TIL Disney hired kodak to make the pavement in their parks a certain hue of pink, to make their grass look greener (by wearing out the red receptors in your eyes).
Z8n0Y TIL about Msscribe. Someone who had the Harry Potter Fanfiction community fooled for years. Or, as this video described her, "one of the internet's most impressive liars"
6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
jNDaQ TIL about Freedom Ship, a traveling floating city concept imagined with the primary objective of housing 60,000 residents to avoid taxes.