› added 13 years ago

103

TIL a drug 400-6000 times stronger than morphine was the gas used in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XVyD TIL Michael Keaton refused 15,000,000 to play Batman Forever because Tim Burton was dropped as its director.
nLXW TIL that the Øresund Bridge, connecting Sweden with Denmark, ends overwater and continues underwater.
E17X TIL In Scotland, they deep fry pizza.
j0DQ TIL all captive white tigers can be traced to a single tiger origin. Every white tiger since has been inbred again and again causing major deformities at birth. They are also not a subspecies, thus not endangered, and only kept around to bring in more money.
0wBM5 TIL the Russian WWII movie "Come and See" uses almost only live rounds. Bullets sometimes passed just above the heads of actors, making their terrified looks genuine.