› added 6 months ago

58

TIL Drew Barrymore was originally going to play the lead character in the 1996 movie Scream

Read more ew.com

via reddit.com

D6Rp TIL that Hayao Miyazaki only permitted an English adaptation of ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on the condition that no part of the movie would be edited out, all names had to remain the same, the translation had to be as close to the original Japanese,& no part of the movie could be changed
4kB6N TIL the Persian Gulf was once a very fertile and inhabited valley having flooded during the start of recorded history during the time of the Sumerians
QJLma TIL that the earth was known to be spherical by most European scholars since the 3rd century bc
jNPv TIL that the middle finger of Galileo Galilei is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence.
9wlaG TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995. First place went to DOOM.