› added 11 years ago

275

TIL Greenland has to import Christmas trees because they cannot grow that far north

Read more whychristmas.com

via reddit.com

oRem8 TIL that a 10hour movie called "Paint Drying" was released in 2016 for the sole purpose of annoying the British Board of Film Classification.
oRYko TIL about Hastings Banda, the oldest president who was still ruling Malawi at 96 years old. Under his rule, women could not wear trousers and men with beards were seized and forced to have a haircut.
AmOg TIL Gates McFadden, who played Dr Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, choreographed the ballroom dance scene in the movie Labyrinth
rxQe TIL that while filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the live rabbit they used for the “monster” scenes was covered in what they assumed was washable red dye. But when they had trouble cleaning it off, they had to stop filming to desperately clean the rabbit before its owner arrived.
mxDGM TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien was inspired to write LOTR by the discovery of a cursed 4th century Roman gold ring that was discovered when he was a professor at Oxford