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TIL We already have the world`s first Bionic Pop Star - Viktoria Modesta

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9wZor TIL that the 90's teen rom-com "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
YL4A TIL Wes Craven was able to blacklist Santa Rosa High School a once popular film setting location, because days before the filming of Scream, the school board denied filming. In the credits for Scream, Craven includes, “And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.”
v7K4 TIL a man was found alive in an air pocket on a sunk ship after three days of no water, no food, and in pitch black.
LkEB0 TIL that, in 1920s Paris, James Joyce would get drunk, start fights, and then hide behind Ernest Hemingway for protection, screaming, "Deal with him, Hemingway!"
dD5n7 The expression "For whom the bell tolls", refers to an actual bell that is on display in a London Church