› added 10 years ago

103

TIL that Charlton Heston got his role in “True Lies” because James Cameron “needed someone who could plausibly intimidate Arnold Schwarzenegger”.

Read more reddit.com

via reddit.com

w947 TIL: In 2000, for the sole purpose of trolling the MPAA, a programmer created a mostly useless, legal program that shared a name with the recently released, illegal program for decrypting DVD video, DeCSS.
ZyvD TIL that “Breaking Bad” writer and director Vince Gilligan became a professional writer after submitting a fan script to “The X-Files” for its 2nd season. It became an episode and he went on to be a regular writer and producer on the X-Files.
VBXx8 TIL The bones of the fallen soldiers at Waterloo were exhumed from mass graves, ground down into bone-meal and used in the production of sugar at nearby sugar manufacturing plants. Also bones of the fallen were commonly ground into bone-meal and used as fertilizer.
KOw9a TIL a fundamental limit exists on the amount of information that can be stored in a given space: about 10^69 bits per square meter. Regardless of technological advancement, any attempt to condense information further will cause the storage medium to collapse into a black hole.
e0MxD Til there was an early horse with three toes called the Mesohippus and it is less than half the size of modern horses from 35 million years ago until they moved to grasslands, grew and their toes later fused into a hoof