v1d64 TIL: William Talman was the first Hollywood actor to to film an anti-smoking public service announcement. He had lung cancer when he filmed the commercial. The short film began with the words: "Before I die, I want to do what I can to leave a world free of cancer for my six children"
D1PND TIL The only Mexican to die on the Titanic was Manuel Uruchurtu Ramírez. A politician who gave up his seat on a rescue boat to woman who wanted to see her child and husband. She had lied to him about her family and survived.
jNdXN TIL 2012 Olympics organisers wanted Keith Moon, who died in 1978, to play at the ceremony. When they asked the The Who's manager if Keith "would be available" to play, he replied "He now resides in Golders Green crematorium, If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him"
6Evrm TIL Bob Dylan never visited Elvis because he wanted to uphold the image of "the powerful mystical Elvis that had crash-landed from a burning star onto American soil. After Elvis died he didn't speak to anyone for a week.
awrMb TIL of Koko the Gorilla. She knew 2,000 words of spoken English and could form 1,000 different signs of Gorilla Sign Language. One day she told her mentor that she wanted to be a mother, so she gave her a kitten who Koko named. After it died, Koko expressed grief.
oBWEY TIL ancient Roman Philosopher Seneca chose to adopt a vegetarian diet "to challenge the decadence of his time". Seneca eventually abandoned vegetarianism, because he did not want to be associated with a particular political faction that had adopted it's practice.
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Z8llp TIL When Washington became president, he scrapped the plans for "Washington monument" as he didn’t want to use public money for a personal memorial monument. Long after he died, In 1833 a small group of Washingtonians established a society to raise private funds for the project and got it built.
7rMbp TIL when Joseph Stalin's first wife died, he was so overcome with grief he threw himself into her grave during the funeral. Later, secret policemen arrived at the funeral, looking for Stalin (at the time a wanted fugitive); he was forced to flee the service early by jumping the graveyard's fence.
5YWbp TIL that Battle of Grunwald painting depicting Polish-Lithuanian victory over German Teutonic Order topped list of most wanted paintings by Nazis, whoes aim was to destroy it. Bounty of 10M marks was offred by Goebbles and several restance mebers died protecting its location, but it survived the war