› added 5 years ago

101

TIL: The original 1992 Candyman film used an on set hypnotist to help one of the actors act more realistically scared.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kODlE TIL volunteer Miss Frank E. Buttolph was responsible for saving and donating 25,000 menus spanning 1850s thru the early 1900s to the New York public library. The collection provides a slice of life historical perspective to ordinary people's lives
Wk7MX What can liquefy its limbs, throw up its own stomach and still live? Echinoderms, a group of sea creatures that can regenerate their own body parts! In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Explorer Paul Bump tells you all about echinoderm’s incredible capacity for regeneration.
jNoEp TIL That the Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.
PYemL TIL that, as a child, Jack Black (real name Thomas Jacob Black) appeared in a commercial for the 1982 Atari videogame "Pitfall!"
dYoB TIL the founders of Bebo sold the site for $850M. They later bought it back for just $1M.