50 Interesting And Intriguing Facts From The “Today I Learned” Community

He was making a family visit!

Isn't this jean reno's movie

Shades of the Yakuza providing earthquake relief. It's much easier to run an organised crime operation when you've got some public goodwill on your side.

Plus he supplemented the salaries of many underpaid Chicago law enforcement officials.

Today's entry in "Sure, so-and-so was a bad guy but not ALL of his ideas were bad"

Well, that is good, no questions asked.

Yeah just like all that money trump donated to the wounded veterans so must be a nice guy…oh wait!

Oh boy, do I have a true story. My great uncle, who was a railroad engineer, picked up a hitchhiker in western Kansas in late 1932. He was a "nice fellow" per my uncle. My uncle realized it was Pretty Boy Floyd but didn't say anything. When Uncle dropped him off, PBF said,"I guess you know who I am." Uncle confirmed and said he "didn't want any problems". I remember the dialogue specifically as Uncle shared it several times and was consistent. A few months later the Kansas City Massacre took place with PBF. Interesting and scary.

He's a bad guy, but that doesn't mean he's a BAD GUY.

When the British colonised Timbuktu the scholars hid all their books and papers because they knew what would happen otherwise. Of course the Brits believed that any African culture must be incapable of autonomously creating learning, education, or documentation, so they never went looking for them.

I doubt if he killed himself. Having a guy at the end of the war telling the world that he tried to warn them years ago as to what was going on would have been a "problem".

If people can deny that bad things are happening, they will. If the facts become too obvious that they can't deny them any longer, then they will want to think that they can't do anything about it. Once they know that they can do something, they will want to believe that they have more important things to take care of first. There are courageous people (I have met some!), but you have to overcome a lot of inertia to do the right thing.

So sad

Those girls deserve way more credit than they got. I was a kid when they first became popular and they were making so many little girls feel happy and empowered. Even my cynical tomboy a**e loved their music, and it was something me and my more traditionally girly sister could bond over.

"Creative Control"...? Why am I like this.

"Co wrote" has a pretty loose meaning in pop music. Could just mean they were in the room while writing occured. Also, those masters weren't theirs. Theft is a crime. Why are we supposed to celebrate this?

More info from original post: As many feared would occur one day and despite great efforts to prevent such a tragedy, Luna was killed instantly one day when he approached a boat he knew—the ocean tugboat General Jackson. It is believed that Luna went up to the tugboat intentionally, as he often did, to engage in playful activity. Apparently underestimating the power of the idling vessel (tugboats have much more powerful engines than other ships of their size), Luna was likely pulled by suction from the propellers into the six-foot diameter blades and died. Sadly, a previous sophisticated attempt to reunite him with his pod backed and assisted by numerous professional and governmental entities was so narrowly unsuccessful. The L98 Luna team responsible for his relocation was poised to attempt another rescue in the spring. Luna was killed merely a few weeks before this second attempt would take place.

But not a whale.

I’m sorry but I laughed at Bruno!

I knew this. "I" watched the Zatouchi movies

Haha! I plan to go through this dictionary of old Danish words that are, for the most part, not in use anymore and then take note of all the words I'd like to add to my vocabulary and then just use them as much as I can. I will probably turn out to be the world's worst articulate person in the world. Lol

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calling a black man articulate is a form of racism. I know I will get downvoted, but this has been cited by people inside of this phenomenon. It's sad.

Cool movie. It was the most expensive silent film ever produced at the time of it's release in 1927. The original edit was lost, and then rediscovered in 2008.

More like a "Cheeky" sense of humor, if you know what I mean!

Just kill me if farts ever stop being funny.

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rainier beer used to have a commercial with wildlife calling out for it. maybe this bear missed the casting call.

All they had to do, instead of the live trap, was wait until morning. Smokey must have had a hangover.

Yellowstone Park bears were quick learners, they learned to unscrew lids, poke holes in beer cans to drink. Our cabin was about 2 mountains over from Yellowstone (Tobacco Root Mountains) and we would get some of those bears wandering around Back in the day before they bear-proofed visitor garbage cans, if a bear was caught causing too much trouble, they would capture it, paint its nose yellow and move it way into the back country, if they caught it again, they would paint its nose red, if they caught a red-nosed bear, it was euthanized

Same way I got me a husband