› added 11 years ago

56

TIL, that Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data, and it took weeks of discussion with Robert Justman, Rick Berman, and the casting director to convince Roddenberry that Stewart was the one they had been looking for to sit in the Captain’s chair.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxRPp TIL that purple Skittles are grape flavoured in the USA rather than blackcurrant (in the UK) due to a ban introduced in 1629. Although it's been lifted, only 0.1% of american have eaten a blackcurrant.
Qrr9 TIL that Elon Musk is “nauseatingly pro-American”, and he believes that “the United States is [inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”
j8WQ TIL that in 2013, more Americans were killed by toddlers than Terrorists
XZkk TIL that is 2009 two men randomly decided to attack two men dressed in drag. It turned out the two drag queens were cage fighters in fancy dress.
18K8 TIL that after a typhoon swept through Microneasian island Pingelap, leaving olny about 20 survivors, 10% of the population is now affected by rare color blindness, because of one male survivor