› added 4 years ago

648

TIL in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.

Read more time.com

via reddit.com

VEQQ TIL Sylvester Stallone was the third person Ever to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Writer Oscars in the same year (for Rocky), following only Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin.
E1bGd TIL that reruns of the 90s tv show "Friends" is a billion dollar per year industry, and the cast members each take 2% of revenue or 20 million dollars each.
ogvL TIL That if you randomly selected two people in Papua New Guinea, there would be a 99% chance the two would speak different languages.
1aLVW TIL Chinese Emperor Xianfeng's reign title "Universal Prosperity", did not reflect the situation. When he came to the throne at 19 in 1850 the first of a series of popular rebellions began that would nearly destroy the dynasty
LQVpZ TIL - "In the Still of the Night" by The Five Satins is the only song ever to have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 three separate times by the same artist, with the same version each time; in 1956, 1960 and 1961.