› added 6 years ago

181

TIL that "Robocop" was actually filmed in Dallas. The only real shot of Detroit in the entire movie is the aerial shot in the opening, and that was stock footage.

Read more thegeektwins.com

via reddit.com

DLRP TIL that Leslie Nielsen has a fart joke on his tombstone.
R7gQQ TIL that the International Space Station ran on a 20MHz Intel 80386SX CPU from 1988 & was upgraded in August with a commercial off-the-shelf computer. The station orbits Earth & sees a sunrise once every 92 minutes. Soon after the upgrade, it will have a computer that can keep up.
e0KOb TIL that the Golden Records on the Voyager probes includes copyrighted material that aliens will be able to access and use completely for free, but we can't.
e0lZ4 TIL That in 1890 Congress passed a bill turning Denver’s first cemetery into a park. Family members were given 90 days to remove the remains. The undertaker responsible for transferring the unclaimed bodies then used child sized coffins. Hacking limbs from the remains so they would fit.
69LKl TIL about Walter Tetley, the voice actor who portrayed Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve in the 1940s-50s and Sherman on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the 1960s. It was rumored that his mother had had him 'fixed' before his voice changed