› added 11 years ago

96

TIL a 24 year old made it to #5 on his national charts with a song recorded on a four-track in his bedroom. He opened for Blur the same year, and then died six months later.

Read more audioculture.co.nz

via reddit.com

PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films
xdl7 TIL Jack Black used to put wires up his sleeves when he was a kid in the hopes that other kids would notice them poking out and think he was bionic.
7aJM TIL 700,000 people in japan that are so far withdrawn from society they do not leave their house. Very interesting article.
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.
rxAw TIL that bonsai trees have to be planted off centre because the centre symbolizes where heaven and earth meet and therefore should be left unoccupied.