› added 8 years ago

206

TIL that despite being a quarter of a million words long, Melville managed to use a unique word (a word that’s only used once in the novel) per every 12 words in Moby Dick.

Read more mine-control.com

via ift.tt

e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
9wOVm TIL that there is an Ancient Egyptian text from around 1000 BCE titled "The Immortality of Writers," including the quote "Man decays, his corpse is dust. All his kin have perished; But a book makes him remembered through the mouth of its reciter."
Oj8g TIL there is a shade of blue that can’t be detected by graphics arts cameras, which layout editors use to write/draw notes directly on the thing they’re editing
J1Qdm TIL about Arthur Wermuth, a U.S. Army Captain from South Dakota who was placed with the 57th Infantry ((Philippine Scouts). He performed "countless" guerrilla missions against the Japanese, often alone or with his friend Sergeant "Jock" Crispin Jacob, and earned the nickname "Ghost of Bataan."
D17Pe TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.