› added 11 years ago

382

TIL The “Regular Show” was based off a short where two gas station workers trip on Acid.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

56ZQ TIL of patient SM who due to a genetic defect of amygdala is unable to experience fear. Described as very outgoing, extremely friendly & disinhibited, she has an abnormally high tendency to approach & engage in physical contact with others & is greatly impaired in recognizing negative social cues
nWVBG TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist
4XLbJ TIL that in 1971 a German episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was produced for broadcast in Germany & Austria. None of the Pythons spoke German, so the script was translated and memorized phonetically.
RDQ9 TIL that Lionel Logue, the speech therapist featured in The King’s Speech, used fees paid to him by wealthy clients to subsidize patients who could not afford to pay
9mw6 TIL that Thomas & Friends was not the first television adaption of the Railway Series - in 1953, the BBC commisioned a live adaption of “The Sad Story of Henry” During broadcast, a failure to switch the points caused the model of Henry to derail and a human hand to reach out and re-attach it.