› added 11 years ago

88

TIL John Larroquette was paid with pot for his voiceover work on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Read more earwolf.com

via reddit.com

mV6x TIL Stephen king was hit by a van not far from his home in 1999. He suffered from a collapsed lung, a broken hip,a leg broken in nine places.Afterward he and his lawyer bought the van for $1,500 and when King healed, he wailed on it with a baseball bat before sending it to be crushed at a junkyard
yVQxJ TIL Nicolas Cage convinced Laura Dern to take the Dr. Ellie Sattler role in Jurassic Park (h/t Jurassic Park: The Unknown Story on Reelz)
7rZ7P TIL: It’s estimated 98% of the rain forest in Indonesia and Malaysia will be destroyed by 2022, with much of the blame on palm oil farming
1adJO TIL the Canadian province of Saskatchewan is so flat, its highest point is just some spot in the middle of a cow pasture
Wkoxd TIL T.G.I. Friday's founder Alan Stillman, despite having no restaurant business experience, opened the restaurant because the neighborhood he lived in had many young, single people and he wanted to meet women.