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janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Tom Hanks sustained a leg wound while making Castaway. He failed to treat it, and it became infected. Two weeks later, he went to see a doctor to get it checked. The doctor told him that the condition of the infection had gotten so dire that he was about an hour away from fatal blood poisoning.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL that a cult in Papua New Guinea promised villagers that their banana harvest would increase every time they engaged in public sex. After a villager reported to the polіcе that the cult members had been using thrеats of viоlence to fоrce people to have sex in public, the leader escаped
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Terry Grosz was a fish and game warden that caught illegal fishers by waiting in the Eel River in a wetsuit and reeled himself in when the fisherman cast out their lines. After writing citations and confiscating their fishing rods, he went back into the river and swam away.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Kurt Vonnegut had a cameo appearance in the movie; ‘Back to School.’ When the protagonist (Rodney Dangerfield) is asked how he is gong to write a paper on ‘Vonnegut’ for literature class, if he hasn’t read any of the books? ...the actual Kurt Vonnegut shows up at his dorm room.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL the oldest recipient of a doctorate degree was German born Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who submitted her thesis in 1938 but wasn’t allowed to defend it under Nazi rule because her mother was Jewish. 77 years later she was finally given the chance to do so and obtained her PhD at the age of 102.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL For Die Hard, finding a star proved difficult: the role of McClane was offered to a host of the decade's top stars, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, all of whom turned it down. Willis, who was known mainly for his TV work, was cast.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL that January is named after Pagan God Janus. He is deity of new beginnings and transitions. He is two faced. Older face is the year that has come to an end. Younger face is the New Year we look forward to.
janeiro 01, 2021
Today I learned that there is a Jewish "tradition" (primarily among Jewish New Yorkers) of eating Chinese food on Christmas.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL about the SS Warrimoo, a ship that simultaneously crossed the International Date Line and Equator at 12 am on 31 Dec 1899 thus placing her in two different seasons, in two different hemispheres, on two different days, in two different months, in two different years, in two different centuries
dezembro 31, 2020
TIL that Dog the Bounty Hunter met Beth Chapman, his late wife, when he posted her bond after she shoplifted a lemon.
dezembro 31, 2020
TIL that a giant tortoise species was believed to be extinct for 113 years, only for it to be discovered again in Galápagos, 2019.
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