Everything You Didn't Know About the Rat Pack

Holmby Hills Pack

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall lived in a neighborhood called Holmby Hills. Since their house is allegedly where the original group was named, they were sometimes called the Holmby Hills Rat Pack.

Sinatra and His Mom

It's well known that Dean Martin's son died in a plane crash. But, Frank Sinatra’s mother, Dolly, was also killed in a plane crash 10 years earlier. Oddly enough, it was on the same mountain. Three others also perished.

The More You Know

In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.