› added 11 years ago

264

TIL Netflix uses up to 33% of total Internet bandwidth in US

Read more news.cnet.com

via reddit.com

4xL5 TIL that It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, allegedly laced with cyanide to kill himself with. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”
6Pdl TIL that when asked what it was like working with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, comedian Doug Stanhope (who hosted GGW) responded “He’s pure, unadulterated evil” and “The most awful human being I’ve ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business.”
P1MDV TIL B.B King named his guitars “Lucille” after rescuing one of his early Gibson guitars from a fire started by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille
JZvj TIL that Topcraft, the studio that animated The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn, eventually became Studio Ghibli
jNJJE TIL Kirk Douglas, at 101 years old, is one of the last surviving actors of the golden era of Hollywood