› added 10 years ago

75

TIL John Carter spent 81 years in development hell, more than any other film. Initially developed in 1931, it was finally produced by Disney in 2012…only to bomb at the box office.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

16MN4 TIL that, in a bid to raise much needed funds, North Korea issued a set of stamps to commemorate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981
D1oe TIL that Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, admits that he was wrong about nuclear power
4Xw96 TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
rRmGe TIL a man was actually set on fire for the cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album. An unexpected change in wind direction during the shoot caused stuntman Ronnie Rondell's mustache to catch on fire and burn off.
yVx8 TIL That the all of the water in Great Basin, which covers a large portion of the western US, never flows out.