› added 1 year ago

203

TIL the director of Captain Phillips didn't allow Tom Hanks and Actors playing somali pirates to meet before filming the movie, so that the pirates can terroize Tom and his crew and create a realistic tension and hostility between them.

Read more fandomwire.com

via reddit.com

OolBa TIL Nasa got the idea of a rocket countdown from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film.
KOvDR TIL - Water was probably delivered to Earth from space
R5bx4 TIL that NBC will become the first "Big Three" network to not offer a soap opera in its on-air programming on September 12, 2022, when it will send "Days of Our Lives" exclusively to Peacock. The show has aired nearly every weekday since November 8th, 1965 and has over 14,000 episodes.
yQGnp TIL that in 2007, the Scottish government spent £125,000 ($163,000) to devise a new national tourism slogan. The winning slogan ended up being "Welcome to Scotland".
Mey0V TIL A pirate had a bounty of $500 put on him by a governor, so he put an even larger bounty on the governor (reports say either $1500 or $5000).