› added 4 days ago

3

TIL that the James Bond theme song is a rework of the composer's (Monty Norman's) earlier work "Bad Sign, Good Sign" which is a song about a man with a terrible sneeze.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kOv0B TIL German art student hand-illuminated Silmarillion in the style of medieval monastery book
yLPp TIL Sleep is the only time the brain has to catch its breath. If it doesn’t, it may drown in its own biological debris–everything from toxic free radicals produced by hard-working fuel cells to spent molecules that are now useless
YpQ9Z TIL in 2012 the "average" car sold in the UK was a 5-year-old Vauxhall Corsa with 57,000 miles on the clock.
R7Ln4 TIL that on December the 27th 1973, the IRA kidnapped and murdered the West German consul to Northern Ireland Thomas Niedermayer. His wife, two daughters and son-in-law subsequently committed suicide
8GDb TIL Bruce Lee actually hit Jackie Chan during filming of the 1973 classic “Enter the Dragon,” but neither broke character until the director called cut [1:49]