› added 8 years ago

172

TIL original PS1 controller was 10% larger in the US compared to Japan, to account for bigger hands in America.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R7RMl TIL Bill Murray auditioned for the role of Sulley in Monsters, Inc., but the director, Pete Docter, said that when they decided to offer it to Murray, they were unable track down the elusive actor because he had replaced his team of agents with a toll free 1-800 number. They took that to mean "no".
wo5X6 TIL of "the Bat man", a married woman's lover kept in her attic for 10 years.
Z8w7a TIL that George Harrison briefly quit the Beatles and John Lennon suggested replacing him with Eric Clapton, saying “he's just as good and not such a headache."
rRvMo TIL that a cult in Papua New Guinea promised villagers that their banana harvest would increase every time they engaged in public sex. After a villager reported to the polіcе that the cult members had been using thrеats of viоlence to fоrce people to have sex in public, the leader escаped
8ae8V TIL the US Senate has only voted to expel a member once, in 1862.