› added 7 years ago

677

TIL that before he ever wrote a feature film, Mel Brooks made an animated short where he improvised the voice of an old Jewish man forced to sit through an art house film. That short was called The Critic and it won him an Oscar.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

0wMky TIL that the "hot hand fallacy" is itself a fallacy, caused by a common statistical error. Once correcting for that error, streaks or "hot hands" were found to exist in basketball.
Zp91R TIL The England Dan of England Dan and John Ford Coley was Danny Seals the younger brother of Jim Seals from Seals and Croft
XErGr TIL that there are currently more than a million people living underneath the streets of Beijing.
x6Vl7 TIL Princess Diana was set to star in sequel to The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner
gGy9 TIL Single Men Wash Their Sheets on Average Four Times per Year