› added 9 years ago

117

TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies because they weren’t challenging, and he thought they should have been animated

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X0OMX TIL Candice Bergen was the first female host of Saturday Night Live
6ED5Q TIL that while working for web host Tripod, Ethan Zuckerman invented one of most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad."
w4l7 TIL: Benjamin Franklin lived his life by 13 rules which he called the 13 virtues. He made these virtues when he was 20.
p6pZ TIL: The leader of the Church of Scientology served as Tom Cruise’s best man at his wedding and his own wife disappeared in 2007 after she “filled several job vacancies without her husband’s permission”.
neLr7 TIL that slugs used to be used as lubricant on wheels