› added 11 years ago

106

TIL the development of the Disney animated film Wreck-it-Ralph started in the late 1980’s, spanning nearly three decades and four working titles.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VdwG TIL Norway stopped investing money into Walmart after determining that the company is guilty of “serious violations of fundamental ethical norms.”
xV1b5 TIL there is a special prayer that a Muslim is only supposed to say during a solar eclipse, as well as one during a lunar eclipse
R7l0l TIL St. Patrick was not Irish at all, but a spoiled and rebellious young Roman citizen living a life of luxury in fifth-century Britain when he was suddenly kidnapped from his family’s estate as a teenager and sold into slavery across the sea in Ireland.
YLDG TIL the original Super Mario Bros 2 game was too hard and unpopular overseas, so Nintendo redeveloped an existing Japanese game (Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic) and turned it into what we know as Super Mario Bros 2, hence the weird, new characters and game play.
OEwg TIL Humans are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex is to the Stegosaurus.