› added 7 years ago

66

TIL that radio was broadcast live until the late 1940s because of how bad recorded phonograph discs sounded. Prime time shows had to be performed twice in the U.S., once for each coast.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VKy8 TIL Jim Lahey ( John Dunsworth ) is Sarah’s (Sarah Dunsworth ) father in real life
Z88YR TIL There is a note in the end credits of "Frozen" stating that Disney does not support the consumption of boogers
QjQ9 TIL that when surrendering during the American Civil war Robert E Lee dressed in an immaculate custom made uniform while Ulysses S Grant was dressed in a mud splattered general issue uniform.
p8v0b TIL that in 2007 Russia planted their national flag underwater in hopes of securing the arctic's potential natural resources. “This isn’t the 15th century,” one foreign minister said. “You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say, ‘We’re claiming this territory.’
x6aOD TIL that in 1839 a state law in Missouri made it illegal for Indians to reside in the state of Missouri. The statute was reinforced as late as 1899, and only repealed in 1909.