› added 8 months ago

307

TIL Mark Ruffalo woke from a dream that told him he had a brain tumor. He got a CT scan the following day confirming he had a benign tumor behind his left ear. The tumor was removed, and he is deaf in that ear as a result of the surgery.

Read more cnn.com

via reddit.com

8eKW8 TIL that Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller, paying them more than $50,000 a year to ensure a constant supply of perfectly crafted cannabis cigars.
eg9J TIL Roger Ebert said the 2004 film National Treasure was “so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.”
4D6N TIL Gandhi received a British medal for helping to suppress black South Africans, said that Hitler was “not a bad man”, and disallowed his wife from taking penicillin for pneumonia, from which she then died (he was against “alien medicine”). Later, he “allowed doctors to save his life with quinine”.
a8xJy TIL that in King Kong vs Godzilla (1962), For the attack of the giant octopus, four live octopuses were used. Three of them were released after filming the scene, the 4th became the special effects directors dinner that night.
Mp7 TIL that the internet was called “The Galactic Network” when it was first conceived.