› added 4 years ago

61

TIL Gilbert Arenas starred in a production of the play Our Town, alongside teammates Etan Thomas, Jared Jefferies, and Boost mobile spokesman Faizon Love.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

AD0bo TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote a song called “Motherfucker” for their 1999 South Park movie debut, but the MPAA threatened them with an NC-17 rating. They circumvented the threat by changing the song to “Uncle Fucka”.
VMnOp TIL that Japan's Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is the world's oldest hotel. Founded in 705, it has been continuously operated by 52 generations of the same family.
KObBw TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for T2: Judgement day was $15 million and total words spoken by him in the entire film is 700. This attributes to $21,429 per word and the line ”Hasta la vista, baby” amounts to $85,716.
W7YgY TIL Wayne Gretzky's stats were so far ahead of his peers' that if you cut his entire career number in half he's still one of the top 20 players of all time.
vPNLj TIL Jagadeesh Pillai took over four years to record, edit and mix the longest officially released song, lasting 138 hr 41 min 20 sec. Pillai sung the entire book of the poetic work “Shri Ram Charit Manas”