› added 5 years ago

264

TIL the production of Apocalypse Now had actual dead bodies on set, from someone who supplied bodies to medical schools for autopsies. It turned out he was a grave robber.

Read more independent.ie

via reddit.com

WkrAX TIL in 2012 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that forcing a RuneScape player to relinquish his in-game items constituted property theft, and sentenced the perpetrators as thieves.
RL98 TIL the blobfish – a fish repeatedly described as the world’s ugliest animal – actually becomes a pretty good-looking fish when submerged to 4,000 feet.
v15xD TIL 22-year-old Henry Cavill was considered as Bond in 2005 for Casino Royale .
W75vB TIL a licensed Smurfs mobile game somehow beat out Angry Birds as the highest grossing IPhone game at one point.
Wnp8 TIL that Yisrael Kristal, due to being unable to do so at age 13 because of WW I, celebrated his bar mitzvah one hundred years later at age 113 in 2016.