wovW1 TIL that during the filming of Saw (2004), Tobin Bell was actually lying on the bathroom during the two-week long shoot.
R5JXQ TIL that It's a Wonderful Life became a holiday classic because Republic Pictures forgot to renew the copyright in 1974 and TV stations started playing it since they didn't have to pay royalties.
W7AlA TIL an audit at the University of North Carolina found that one of its most reliable servers had been walled off for 4+ years without anyone even noticing
9wRoX TIL that Tom Brady, who was also a skilled baseball player growing up, was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1995 MLB draft. Upon his retirement in 2023 he became the last active pro athlete to be drafted by the Expos.
nWZbP TIL that future SCOTUS Justice Stephen Field replaced David Terry on the California Supreme Court, due to Terry killing a U.S. Senator in a duel. 30 years later, Field ruled against Terry in a case, and Terry attempted to murder Field, which led to a Supreme Court case Field recused himself from.
4kx7J TIL although The Clash's debut album was not originally released in the U.S.A., it sold 100,000 import copies, making it the largest selling import album of its time.
x6DRg TIL American's Ate Nearly 1.5 Billion Chicken Wings for Super Bowl LX
5V4Z8 TIL that in the Rio Negro valley of Colombia, school children (known as "niños del cable") use a system of 800-meter (2,600 ft) long steel ziplines to cross 400-meter (1,300 ft) deep canyons. Traveling at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph), this 30-second ride replaces a 2-hour trek through the jungle.
M75Wm TIL just how large southern elephant seals really are. For reference, Deep Blue, one of the largest great white sharks recorded, is said to be 20 feet long and weigh 5500 pounds. Her back is 8 feet tall. A southern bull elephant seal grows to be 20 feet long and weight 8800 pounds.
j6Ymn TIL In 2018 Russian soccer club FC Rostov released a kit that looked like a carpet after a fan had brought a carpet to a match because he didn't have room for it in his house that became known as the team's 'lucky carpet'
0dLBy TIL the man who invented peanut butter cups did so in his basement, which raises questions, but he also raised frogs and provided them to restaurants so people could eat frog legs, and now I don't know if I can eat a peanut butter cup again without thinking of frogs and hope none got in the basement
grNJL TIL the eulachon is a type of fish also called the candlefish, because its body is so fatty during spawning that if caught, dried and strung on a wick, it can be burned as candle.