› added 8 years ago

135

TIL Judge Denny Chin received no letters of support for Bernie Madoff’s character, and chose to sentence him to the maximum sentence of 150 years

Read more nytimes.com

via ift.tt

woYwJ TIL: The term ‘mountain dew’ was originally used to refer to a traditional distilled Irish alcoholic drink called Poitín.
5bwD TIL in 2011, PETA mocked a 21 year old man who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack ‘payback.’
8epyL TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce
7rvNZ TIL Elvis Costello is banned from appearing on SNL after refusing to play “Less Than Zero” at Lorne Michaels’ request. He saw it pointless to play a song about UK politics over here. He played a few bars, then kicked into “Radio, Radio,” which was a criticism of corporate-controlled broadcasting.
9YRVr TIL that in Return of the Jedi (1983) for the speeder chase, Garrett Brown walked through the forest shooting at less than one frame per second. By walking at about 5 mph and projecting the footage at 24 frame/s, the motion seen in the film appeared as if it were moving at around 120 mph