› added 12 years ago

90

TIL the zero-gravity scenes in Apollo 13 are actually real. The crew filmed 4 hours of material in 612 parabola flights.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0mGn TIL that in Virginia, the only place that can legally sell hard alcohol are ABC Stores. They are owned and operated by the state, employing 4000 employees in 370 stores, generating hundreds of millions in revenue for VA.
neb6Y TIL In 1975 Brooke Shields at age 10 was photographed nude for a Playboy shoot that was signed off on by her mother.
xw0 TIL that the cat Corleone was petting in the opening scene of “The Godfather” was a stray that wandered onto the set. Brando picking it up and petting it was not in the script
RGQ8 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.
8mNZ TIL Lemmy from Motorhead had an action figure made of him. He asked if they were going to put a penis on it. They said no. He replied “Well, then it’s not going to get much action then, is it?”