› added 6 years ago

323

TIL the movie studio responsible for The Hangover halved director Todd Phillips' $6.5m fee due to nervousness no big actor was attached to the film. Instead, Phillips requested a cut of the profits which netted him close to $70m.

Read more news.com.au

via reddit.com

8apdV TIL for his role in FernGully Robin Williams provided 14 hours worth of improvised lines for the part which was originally only supposed to be an 8-minute role
Bgg5d TIL of Albert Lawson, a former pro baseball player who went on to form his own theory of physics and believed he found a way to live to 200 years. I
mxwox TIL: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that "cannot be defeated".
Br0PD TIL, licked envelopes can yield sufficient DNA to provide a conviction.
yQ0pv TIL when there's merely a suspicion of testicular cancer in a man, a testicle must be removed in almost every case, so a biopsy can be performed after the fact, and doctors can assess if the cancer has spread.