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TIL: The Original G-mail Was Garfield Mail

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X0Ar6 TIL that all sperm whales in the world descended from just one female who lived tens of thousands of years ago
dDjD7 TIL Cary Grant turned down The Bridge on the River Kwai just to work with Marlon Brando in The Pride and the Passion. But Brando, calling the script “mediocre at best,” bailed. Grant filmed it with Sinatra instead, and it flopped, while The Bridge on the River Kwai became an Oscar-winning classic.
mxR4P TIL that modern marshmallow contain sugar, gelatin and water, but none of the actual marshmallow plant.
EKE7 TIL in the Brazilian translation of Star Wars, Count Dooku’s name was changed to Dookan because in portuguese “Dooku” can be roughly translated to “from the ass” or even “I do anal”
AD8Rl TIL Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world.