› added 2 months ago

16

TIL in the late 90's Sony hired George A. Romero to write and direct a live action Resident Evil movie but was fired because Capcom didn't like his script.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ne6oG TIL Kaley Cuoco’s Penny did not appear in the original The Big Bang Theory pilot. The first pilot included two female lead characters - Katie, "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior" and Gilda, a scientist colleague and friend of the male characters.
D77J TIL that scientists recently took the EEG signals from a person experiencing a convulsive seizure and converted them to tones that fell within the acoustic spectrum of the human voice. The results will send chills up your spine.
mxOAP TIL the 2008 financial crash directly led to 6566 suicides, causing more deaths than the September 11 attacks.
0wGjv TIL that the Catholic Church didn't pardon Galileo until 1992, when Pope John Paul II admitted Galileo was right, more than 350 years after the condemnation
XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.