› added 5 months ago

9

TIL Wichita Lineman is an unfinished song written by Jimmy Webb. Country Music artist Glen Campbell recorded the song anyways based on an unfinished demo from Webb.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

gM00A Today I learned jacksepticeye’s outro has someone singing “I’m everywhere” in it
d88m8 TIL, in 1946 Ian Fleming built his estate in Jamaica on a beach clifftop and named it Goldeneye. He wrote all his James Bond novels there in January and February each year. A number of Bond films were filmed nearby. After his death, it was sold to Bob Marley.
awDkA TIL John Lasseter was dismissed from Disney for promoting computer animation. He joined the Graphics Group (now Pixar), Lucasfilm. Steve Jobs acquired GP for $10 mln and invested his savings into Toy Story. In 1995, it became the year’s highest-grossing film with the box office of $373.6 mln.
6vPw TIL : That For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
a8ePL TIL: Before CAD, semiconductor chips were designed and drawn by hand, a process that typically required 7-9 revisions. However, Bill Mench managed to singlehandedly draw the design of MOS 6502 chip (used in the C64 and Atari 2600) without any revisions!