› added 4 months ago

16

TIL that in Back to the Future (1985), the iconic DeLorean time machine was almost a refrigerator. The filmmakers scrapped the fridge idea because kids might try to climb inside and get trapped, so they chose a car instead.

Read more mentalfloss.com

via reddit.com

5YvvP TIL of Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns or gray towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence.
6EBGQ TIL Napoleon III reserved a prized set of aluminum cutlery for special guests at banquets. Less favored guests used gold knives and forks. Aluminium was a valuable and prized metal.
WkPP4 TIL of the four recorded deaths by killer whales three of them were by the same killer whale named Tilikum.
R5e89 TIL The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was an 8-hour alternative history film prophesizing the end of the world and costed approximately an equivalent of $9,418,000 in today's money
ep7Wg TIL the Love Shack made famous by the B-52’s in their 1989 hit song was real, its tin roof was actually rusted, but it unfortunately burned down in 2004.