› added 4 years ago

235

TIL that the Black Crowes album "Amorica" featured a controversial album cover taken from an iconic Hustler magazine cover that showed pubic hair sticking out of an American flag string bikini. It was banned, and a new cover was issued blacking out all but the flag bikini.

Read more feelnumb.com

via reddit.com

o5BE TIL durng the filming of the 1991 film “Hook”, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins decided to portray Captain Hook and Smee as a married gay couple, to which Steven Spielberg replied “this is a kids’ movie”.
OojmR TIL Bob Gibbins claims he has the world’s largest collection of love dolls, 240 of them costing around $160,000. He and his wife spend a lot of time fixing them up to look as nice as possible. They also take them on walks and shopping trips around town. He denies having sex with them, however.
wPEM TIL there is a unit called the “Manhatten distance” (or city block distance), describing the distance of two points when you, rather than measuring the direct linear connection, sum up the length of the left/right and the up/down movement, as if you walk along blocks in a big city.
16RBD TIL The world's largest coin weighed almost 20kg (44lb)
rR0m1 TIL It's theorized that Mitochondrion were originally a separate organism which became incorporated symbiotically into other bacteria at some point