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TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a “living portrait” of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 1:50 pm

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TIL that the well known phrase “They also serve who only stand and wait” originates from the poem “On His Blindness” by John Milton, in which he reflects that he has a place in the world despite his emerging disability of blindness.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 2:58 pm

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TIL John Eastman was a law clerk for Clarence Thomas

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 6:37 am

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TIL that an alternate, unused ending of John Carpenter’s The Thing was shot, in which R.J. Macready escaped to another research station and took a blood test to prove he was human

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 4:16 am

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what do you call John, Paul and George without Ringo?

by cringeyjokesman June 27, 2022, 12:03 am

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TIL John Lennon loved a Beatles parody (The Rutles) by Monty Python’s Eric Idle so much he refused to hand back the preview tape

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 3:29 pm

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James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

by CopyPastaArchive June 26, 2022, 1:21 pm

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TIL John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) is an unofficial sequel to Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) after Clark told Carpenter his idea for a sequel was the killer to escape from a mental institution on Halloween

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 1:54 pm

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TIL in 1976, George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States, the highest rank in the United States Army. The only other person to ever hold this rank was John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during WW1.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 12:31 am

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TIL E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt (1950s), was slandered as a communist by America, pushing him to the point that he threw himself off a building in Cairo. The Canadian public would develop immense anti-American sentiment afterwards, leading to the election of John Diefenbaker

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 9:35 pm

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TIL That John Garand, who designed the M-1 rifle that bears his name, never received any royalties for the design and that an attempt to award him $100 000 by an act of Congress failed despite almost six million rifles being produced.

by whatilearned June 12, 2022, 10:15 am

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TIL that serial killer John Wayne Gacy raised $10,000 for Todd Phillips’ first documentary ‘Hated: GG Allin and The Murder Junkies’.

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 9:28 pm

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