› added 5 years ago

422

TIL The Scooby Doo Movie (2002) was originally meant to be PG-13 and have a much darker tone and have a heavy emphasis on marijuana jokes. After receiving bad feedback, they cut it into the family friendly movie it became. In 2017 it was revealed that an R-rated cut exists of the movie.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0X9D TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins was actually the second person considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Sean Connery was offered the role first, but turned it down because he thought the script was “disgusting”.
pjkb TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.
60ow TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
wowBJ TIL that despite being selected as Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1928, Charles Curtis was almost completely against Hoover winning the Republican Nomination for President due to his pedigree as a progressive follower of Theodore Roosevelt, which did not sit well with conservatives like Curtis.
Z8rko TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.