› added 10 years ago

129

TIL that Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, and Nathan Fillion all voiced marines in Halo 3. Their characters were given personalities resembling the characters they played in Firefly.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

o0MY TIL that in the 19th century China came extremely close to being ruled by the leader of a Christian cult who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It took the deadliest civil war in history with 30 million dead to defeat him.
rRDwM TIL the first videogame console with the possibility to install videogames over the internet was the Atari 2600 in 1983
kOB5e TIL that the largest trebuchet ever made was called 'War Wolf' and, at ~400ft tall, was so massive and intimidating that it made the Scots surrender on sight. Despite this, it was fired anyway to observe the destruction it would cause.
OBK1 TIL there’s a tree in South Africa that has a bar inside it.
9KLX TIL Hitler considered the Japanese “Honorary Aryans” because of their “racial integrity.”