› added 11 years ago

263

TIL that Crispin Glover wasn’t actually in Back to the Future 2; it was all spliced archival footage from BTF1. He sued Spielberg for doing that and won.

Read more m.imdb.com

via reddit.com

9wPam TIL ten years after the first courses in electrical engineering were introduced at the University of Missouri, the main academic hall burned down. The cause of the fire was attributed to faulty electrical wiring
X0EAP TIL the first person to discover the effects of LSD took it by accident, and took it a second time to confirm the cause of the hallucinations
eVk5 TIL that Coca-Cola was sued over Vitaminwater being advertised as a “healthy alternative” to soda despite having 33g of sugar. Coca-Cola dismissed the suit claiming that “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage”.
ExGp TIL That the birthplace of solar energy was in Olney, Illinois in 1902. Mysteriously, it’s the same year the white squirrels appeared there.
JYKE4 TIL the inventor of the functional component of the Magic 8-Ball was inspired by a spirit writing device used by his mother, a clairvoyant.