› added 5 years ago

114

TIL that you shouldn't design something with more than 50 elements on screen at once

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9a0D TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, was shocked by the violence in the game GoldenEye 007 and suggested the game end with Bond visiting his enemies in the hospital and shaking their hands
v1lb8 TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.
vWr4 TIL that the movie “Castaway” increased FedEx’s business world wide. After they didn’t even ask for money to be featured in it.
7rp8Z TIL Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's sidekick) was a carrier certified Marine F4U Corsair instructor pilot during WWII and an artillery spotter during the Korean War. He flew a total of 85 combat missions. After the war, he stayed with the Marines as a reserve officer, retiring in 1966 as a colonel.
wPW8 TIL after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel released a list of ‘questionable’ songs that it recommended that its subsidiaries 'might not want to play’. The list included all recorded songs by Rage Against the Machine