› added 9 years ago

389

TIL a 25 year old contestant on the French version of Survivor died during the first competition on the first day. A week later, the staff doctor of the show killed himself. His suicide note claimed the media was making unjust accusations and assumptions about him.

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

lMor TIL the popular steel slide guitar sound of Hawaii was taught to them by visiting cowboys from a small town in California.
8aeWX TIL about the Batavia mutiny. The 340 survivors of a wreck were stranded on an island off the coast of Australia. A pharmacist leading the survivors had dozens massacred and by the time rescue arrived, there had been a battle for a makeshift fort built by survivors and over 100 people were dead
rRZM4 TIL that Quentin Tarantino dug up and used actual KHJ radio broadcasts from 1968 and 69, along with commercials, for the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He sifted through 17 hours of airchecks to find the tracks he wanted to put in the film
4lxN TIL that there is a boiling river, deep in the Amazon, that was only formally documented in scientific literature in 2011 despite being known by locals for much, much longer
QNMX9 TIL that a politician from the United Kingdom, John Bell, believed that he was a bird, stating that he could fly much better than a bird, because he kept his shoulders oiled. Despite his state of mind, he remained a Member of Parliament until his death in 1851.