› added 7 years ago

272

TIL a man bought a $400 shipping container and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside

Read more cbc.ca

via ift.tt

Vx7Q TIL Livia Soprano was suppose to die when Tony tries to suffocate her in season 1. However, Nancy Marchand, who played Livia, was sick with cancer and said to the creator, “David, just keep me working.” He graciously obliged. She died before her final scenes so they CGI’d her head on a body double.
VKkk TIL that the French each have a single card that holds their entire medical record going back to 1998, which can be scanned wherever they need medical attention
LQk9m TIL that Hugo Ferdinand Boss, the original founder of Hugo Boss, manufactured NSDAP, SS & Wehrmacht clothing in the early 1930s until end of WW2
epOob TIL that Nicolas Cage bought a haunted mansion in New Orleans called the LaLaurie Mansion. This place has a super creepy history with torture and murder from the 1800s. Cage got it in 2007, but then it got foreclosed just two years later.
nWnkr TIL that the film Independence Day (1996) still holds the record for the ‘most miniature model work to appear in one film’. The record is now expected to hold forever due to CGI advances.