› added 1 year ago

60

TIL that before he was an actor, Peter Dinklage was in a punk-funk-rap group called Whizzy. While playing at the famed CBGB nightclub, he was accidentally kneed in the face so hard that he started bleeding on stage and now has a scar running from his neck to his eyebrow.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OZEY TIL The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14million) that the network president was fired for greenlighting it.
VkN4 TIL that the word “Android” refers only to a male looking robot, for one that looks like a female the proper term is “Gynoid”.
KvD9 TIL that Marilyn Manson had a designated driver take a girl home from a house party. She got home, got in her own vehicle, and was killed on her way back to the party.
E1M40 TIL the Mediterranean island country of Malta has been inhabited since around 5900 BCE, and has been ruled by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of Malta, French and British, all before becoming independent in 1964.
7rYG7 TIL that the German word for “turkey” literally translates to “threatening chicken.” Porcupines are “spike pigs,” raccoons are “wash bears,” and platypuses are “beak animals.”