› added 1 year ago

96

TIL The writer for "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was investigated by the FBI after they revealed that his story's plan of robbing the Federal Reserve through a breached subway wall would have worked

Read more cinemablend.com

via reddit.com

OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”
WmeY TIL John Carpenter’s “The Thing” was poorly received after its 1982 opening, with reviewers calling it “the quintessential moron movie of the 80s” and “sacrificing everything at the altar of gore”. The film has been reappraised substantially since then.
yQOKM TIL Once a guy parachuted on top of the Devil's Tower but got stuck there for six days because nobody knew how to get him down.
W7Xl9 TIL There were Camels hanging out with humans in North America 18000 years ago
E1ReV TIL that Americans used the Hitler Salute before Hitler