› added 5 months ago

20

TIL that the 1976 film "Stalker" eventually caused the creation of the Burning Man festival.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R54N6 TIL in 1998, a portion of the Titanic's hull was recovered and is now on display in a casino. Visitors are provided with a 'boarding pass' that bears the name of a passenger, and they can learn about the fate of that passenger at the end of the exhibition.
alx9 TIL; there have been at least 9 confirmed political assassinations in the United States since 2000
WklNL TIL that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and The Wrestler were originally supposed to be one movie about an affair between an obsessed ballet dancer and a burnt out wrestler. He eventually realized it was way too much story and split them, doing The Wrestler about 10 years later
VMX7Q TIL of Eddie Chapman - a professional criminal and prolific womanizer who became an important British double agent during WWII. He once convinced both British and German intelligence to house and pay each of his two fiancees in opposite warzones. He is the only Briton to win the German Iron Cross.
QX59 TIL the word Dinner comes from the old French word Disner, which meant “Breakfast”.