› added 11 years ago

163

TIL The Director of The Truman Show (Peter Weir)wanted to have a video camera installed in every theater where the movie was shown. At one point, the projectionist would cut to the live footage of the audience, then back to the movie.

Read more blogs.amctv.com

via reddit.com

gr5XX TIL: That early drafts for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey included a prologue containing interviews with scientists about extraterrestrial life, voice-over narration, a stronger emphasis on the prevailing Cold War balance of terror and a different and more explicitly explained breakdown for HAL.
GmnN TIL that although he was 6’ 5" and 315 lbs, Michael Clarke Duncan’s mother would not let him play football in high school, afraid that he would get hurt. So instead, Duncan pursued his interest in acting.
E1GlP TIL in 1942, as Japanese torpedoes slowly sank the U.S.S. Lexington, then the second-largest aircraft carrier in the Navy’s arsenal, the crew abandoned ship - but not before breaking into the freezer and eating all the ice cream.
Ypo8B TIL Subutai won 65 battles as general of the Mongol Empire including defeating a Russian army of 80K with only 20K soldiers. His tactics were studied by Mikhail Ivanin in the 19th century & incorporated into Russian military academies & the Red Army.
nW9JG TIL After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, engineers carried diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs in buckets to keep the generators running to power a data center.