› added 10 years ago

199

TIL that The initial intention was that Joker was originally meant to be killed off in Batman #1

Read more whatculture.com

via reddit.com

M7Ooa TIL the top ten earning occupations in the US are all various types of doctors... CEOs come in 11th.
gMleb TIL in the 1988 box-office bomb "Mac and Me", the wheelchair-bound lead child character was played by a real wheelchair-bound actor with spina bifida. In real life, when people asked why he was in a wheelchair, the 12-year-old would reply, "Vietnam."
8aOdK TIL rather than using a mirror, some observatory telescopes were built to use a large, spinning pool of liquid metal as a reflecting surface
pY4Ne TIL the word shark used to mean "scoundrel" and sharks used to be called "sea dogs" instead. The term "loan sharks" predates its use for the fish and refers to them being villains, rather than a comparison to the predator.
OLkX TIL Jim Downey, who played the high school principal in Billy Madison, was a longtime writer on SNL. His famous “May God have mercy on your soul” speech at the end of the film was based on a speech Downey used to give to Chris Farley when Farley presented terrible ideas in the SNL writers’ room.