› added 13 years ago

121

TIL the DragonBall Z series has adapted over 75 different video games.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ne19Y TIL that Kevin Costner asked Princess Diana to star in 'The Bodyguard 2' and she agreed. The plot followed the princess who required protection from paparazzi and stalkers. The first draft for the script arrived the day before she died.
pYwpQ TIL about the "Raines sandwich;" an inedible piece of "food" that served as a way to bypass prohibition laws.
N7vBP TIL that drachma (ancient Greek currency) was used in Greece for over 3,000 years from approximately 1100 BC until it was replaced in 2001 by the euro
Me46a TIL that Harry Connick Jr’s father, Henry Connick, unseated New Orleans DA Jim Garrison. Garrison famously was the only DA to bring anyone to trial for JFK’s assassination and was the focus of Oliver Stone’s film JFK.
16ZPP TIL that before the first Harry Potter film was released in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. demanded the owners of Harry Potter fansites, including a 15 year old, to hand over their domain names due to copyright protection. This caused negative publicity, which resulted to the studio backing down.