› added 11 years ago

92

TIL legendary film director Nicholas Ray divorced actress Gloria Grahame in 1952, after finding her in bed with his 13 year old son.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

x6Nvk TIL that because all US banknotes are the same size, making telling them apart hard-to-impossible for the blind, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing provides an electronic device (the iBill Currency Identifier) that can identify the value of the bills free of charge.
wLLvo Short answer: they prefer peanuts to provolone
M77B TIL John Adams wrote in the MA Constitution that “ it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences”
neko9 TIL about Dr. Farid Fata, an oncologist who falsely diagnosed 500+ patients with cancer they never had, subjected them to unnecessary treatments, including chemo, and then fraudulently billed over $30 million to their insurance. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2014.
aw0xA TIL Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived 2 atomic bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the first bomb was dropped. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki. As he was explaining to his boss what happened, the second bomb was dropped. He was within 2 miles of ground zero both times.