› added 4 days ago

4

TIL the Millennium Falcon was built in Wales

Read more visitwales.com

via reddit.com

JYGwk TIL that around the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas during the depression, pork and veal offcuts were cheaper than chicken, leading to "city chicken" a breaded stick of pork and veal that was fried up like chicken.
EgDJw TIL that for new Oppenheimer movie Christopher Nolan wanted total creative control, 100-day theatrical window, $100 million budget, equal marketing spend, 20% of first-dollar gross, and a blackout period where the studio would not release another movie for three weeks before and after the feature.
rRLOx TIL that on 21st May 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
v1ya4 TIL that Pinot Noir production in California has increased roughly 170 percent since the movie 'Sideways' was released
mZ8y TIL Lord Of The Rings is the second “most begun but never finished book” ever.