› added 5 years ago

128

TIL that Nicolas Winding Refn, director of the movie "Drive", failed his driving test 8 times.

Read more inktank.fi

via reddit.com

aDoZ TIL that the African king/queen parents in Coming to America are the same actor and actress as the African king/queen parents in The Lion King.
4vLR TIL Japan has a longer coastline than Australia
lo1EN TIL: Much of Earth's water is older than the Sun, and come from deep space.
gEgA TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.
awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.