› added 6 years ago

366

TIL during the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, the two surrendering "Germans," killed by American soldiers, were saying in Czech: "Please don't shoot me! I'm not German, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone!" The American soldiers jokingly translate it as "Look, I washed for supper!"

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

xORb TIL that Nas listed his daughter as an executive producer on his album Stillmatic so that she could always receive royalty checks from the album’s sales.
xVZBD TIL that Abraham Lincoln was on the first US $10 bill - not the $5. Who was on the first $5 bill? Alexander Hamilton.
d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
ArR4 TIL that Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo was inspired by a real event, wherein an automaton donated to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute was restored to find that it could draw elaborate Illustrations and write poems.
pjd4 TIL that the star ratings on Netflix movies and shows are not the actual rating of the film but instead are how much Netflix thinks you’ll enjoy them based on your previous viewing history.