› added 9 years ago

686

TIL Sean Bean is terrified of flying. So during Lord of the Rings when the cast had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter, like the snowy mountains, he travelled part of the way via ski-lift and then spend two hours walking the remainder of the journey, in full Boromir costume.

Read more warpedfactor.com

via reddit.com

Nbwb TIL that a retired Major General suggested in 1935 that wars could be avoided by drafting the upper class before the rest.
yQZNM TIL One of the few remaining trams which survived the Hiroshima bomb has been restored to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack. It has been repainted its original colours - blue and grey - and has video testimony from survivors on board
WAxY TIL That The US Beat China In A World Math Championship For The First Time In Twenty Years Last Year
9YD56 TIL there was only one American who earned a medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics that was boycotted by the U.S - Mike Sylvester, who played the Italian basketball team
epBL6 TIL the term “debugging” comes from an incident that occurred while Grace Hopper was working on the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II. A moth flew into the computer and was electrocuted to death. Hopper literally had to “debug” the computer which is where the term came from.