› added 3 years ago

206

TIL that James Webb ran NASA in the 1960’s and pushed for a balance between space flight and science. He wrote in 1965 that a major space telescope should be pursued.

Read more jwst.nasa.gov

via reddit.com

eBD5 TIL That ever since playing Shaggy Rogers in 2002, Matthew Lillard has been voicing Shaggy in the animated Scooby Doo.
4kOOo TIL There was an episode of "All in the Family" where a man attacks Edith on her 50th birthday to which she defends herself with a burnt cake prompting the loudest cheers and applause from the studio audience in the history of the entire series.
ZbNp TIL that “Pawn Stars” star Rick Harrison dropped out of school in ninth grade to pursue a business selling fake Gucci bags. He made $2,000 a week.
Oom6X TIL that during the Joker Pencil Trick scene in The Dark Knight was as dangerous as it looked. Charles Jarman, who played the Pencil Trick Thug, stated that he had to remove the pencil, in order to make it look realistic, before Joker (played by Heath Ledger) slammed his head on the table.
pgjN TIL Two mafia families almost went to war in 2012 over the sauce made by Brooklyn’s best pizzeria