› added 4 years ago

198

TIL that the actors who play Mr. Bean and Dr. House (Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie) starred together in a British historical comedy called Blackadder where they are barely recognizable

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

1orV TIL the title of the Italian film, Life is Beautiful, came from a Leon Trotsky quote. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, “life is beautiful”.
KElE TIL if you polish an ancient sword that’s been used in battle, even a 2000 year old sword, it literally bleeds out the blood of the people it’s been used on, which “smells like a steak cooking”.
WkDmL TIL that Lehman Brother before going bankrupt paid its CEO nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007, and fired him in 2008 only after declaring bankruptcy.
l76DK TIL McDonald's waged a 26 year unsuccessful legal battle against a man named Ronald McDonald and his McDonald's Family Restaurant
pDmb TIL the 99 cheese pizza from TMNT is real.