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TIL that Lobsang Rampa, Tibetan Monk and bestselling author of The Third Eye, was in fact Cyril Hoskin, the son of a plumber from Devonshire. When this became known, he stated he was possessed by a Tibetan monk after he fell out of a tree in his back yard whilst tying to photograph an owl.

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 8:11 am

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TIL Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown tried his luck as a musician. In 1994 he released an album called Angels & Demons—a title he reused for a 2000 novel.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 10:25 pm

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TIL Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 8:38 pm

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TIL the author of Bambi was an avid hunter

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 8:40 pm

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TIL fairy dust was not mentioned in the original version of Peter Pan, but the author added it as a neccessity to enable the children to fly because “so many children tried [to fly] from their beds and needed surgical attention.”

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 10:38 am

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Til that Pliny the Elder, author of the encyclopedia considered to be scientific authority from Roman times through the middle ages, suggested fresh breath be obtained by rubbing the teeth with burned mouse dung and honey.

by whatilearned June 17, 2022, 8:02 pm

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TIL that Euclid’s “Elements” is considered as the most influential textbook ever written. From its publication until the 20th century, virtually all educated people read it. The only things we know about its author are the city (Alexandria, Egypt) and the times (c. 300 BCE) in which Euclid lived.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 11:50 pm

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TIL of the Great Wall of Vaginas. Women from all over the world volunteered to have their genitalia set in plaster and displayed anonymously. From the Author, It is not about pornography and it is not about art or titillation but to make the sexual nonsexual and the amazement of human variety.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 1:14 pm

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TIL the CSS color name “rebeccapurple” (#663399) is in honor of Rebecca Meyer, the daughter of web standards author and advocate Eric Meyer, who died of childhood cancer in 2014.

by whatilearned June 8, 2022, 1:12 pm

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TIL Baptist minister Francis Bellamy, author of the US Pledge of Allegiance, was a self-identified Christian Socialist who said “Jesus was socialist” and advocated against the “evils of capitalism” and for separation of church and state. The phrase “under god” was not originally part of the pledge.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 10:22 pm

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TIL that Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn served under the Confederate Militia, but quit after a few weeks.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 5:54 am

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TIL Frank Dixon, author of the Hardy Boys books and Carolyn Keene author of the Nancy Drew Series don’t exist. They are actually pseudonyms for a variety of writers who wrote those stories

by whatilearned May 25, 2022, 8:36 pm

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