› added 12 years ago

201

TIL Most movies depicting death by lava get it wrong, because you would not sink into the lava due to its density.

Read more gawker.com

via bit.ly

0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.
R7Pw1 TIL that the largest fully-functional pipe organ in the world is in a Macy's in Philadelphia.
We64 TIL when asked what future technology they would most like to have, young adults answered “time travel” more than any age group, while 30-to-49-year-olds wanted robot servants more than any other age group. Senior citizens were the least interested in time travel.
m5BE TIL Chrisopher Lee was a special forces commando, and corrected Peter Jackson on the actual sound one makes when being stabbed in the back.
P6QL TIL that in 1993 Delta Airlines saved over 1 million dollars by removing the decorative lettuce leaf underneath the salads on it’s flights.