› added 12 years ago

313

TIL that Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Totoro) was set to animate the Little Nemo movie, but left the project. This amazing test pilot still exists, though!

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

0PYv TIL The Big Lebowski contains more F bombs than The Departed, The Boondock Saints, and Scarface
YpxmG TIL in 2017, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands revealed that he is a part-time commercial pilot for KLM since 1996.
XEldr TIL during the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indi holds up the Nazis with a rocket launcher, an actor appears to swallow a fly during dialog but it actually flew away. Steven Spielberg noticed it and decided it would be funny to cut out a few frames so the fly would not be seen flying away.
QJNP6 The genders are more alike than they are different, with one notable exception.
oR9br TIL that there is only one species of beetle that can sting, and it is the only arthropod that stings with its antennae.