› added 3 years ago

247

TIL that Julius Caesar was never actually an emperor

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

YQDd TIL: The oxytocin system develops during childhood, if that system doesn’t develop properly, you’re more prone to alcoholism and drug addiction as an adult.
wo8V7 TIL that baseball superstar Steve Garvey’s wife Cynthia left him in 1983 for music legend Marvin Hamlisch. Some people may only know Hamlisch as the guy that played the song “You’re So Vain” on the piano in the movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
maxp TIL A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay received letters from his family members, and prison staff redacted all statements such as, “we miss you daddy”, “we love you daddy”, and “we’re thinking of you” from the letters in order to increase the ammount of hopelessness and despair he was feeling.
Yprlx TIL The first PC game mod was entitled “Castle Smurfenstein”; a parody mod in the early 80s for Castle Wolfenstein which replaced enemy Nazi soldiers with Smurfs
QJ7ZM TIL that Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, was a production designer for Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola was a major influence on the art direction of the movie, and the animators put a lot of effort into capturing his unique art style.