› added 6 years ago

104

TIL the shot of Luke running out of the Wampa cave in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ was achieved by having Mark Hamill running out of the hotel the crew was staying at into the Norwegian snow beyond. At the time, they were being hit with the worst winter storm the area had gotten in 50 years.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pxQb TIL Chinese government takes its officials and members of their families on prison tours on a regular basis to give officials an introduction to what awaits them if they should engage in corruption. The tours include meet-and-greets with former government officials who were caught for corruption.
650J TIL That Myspace was created in December of 1996. And this is what it looked like.
E0v0 TIL John Gotti’s neighbor accidentally ran over and killed Gotti’s son. He was abducted 3 months later and never heard from again.
4ly6 TIL that in Islam, the Bible is considered a revelation from God which had been corrupted by men. The Qur'an from Muhammad came to correct this deviation
Q6M9 TIL that, during an English peasant revolt, a rebel leader nicknamed Captain Pouch promised to protect the rebels by the contents of his pouch. When the rebellion failed and he was captured, all that was found in his pouch was a piece of green cheese.