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TIL that in 2015 Yamaha music and bike designers swapped roles for a promo.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 8:21 am

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TIL women are still not allowed to serve in the Gurkhas, despite the government promising to allow them to in 2018 and women being able to serve combat roles in all other British Army regiments

by whatilearned May 23, 2022, 2:03 pm

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TIL Universal Studios wanted John Landis to cast Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in the lead roles in American Werewolf in London. Landis rejected this and went for unknown actors instead.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 10:08 pm

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What actor do you wish would stop getting roles?

by QuestionGuy April 3, 2022, 5:01 pm

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TIL Michael Berryman, known for his iconic roles in horror movies (The Hill Have Eyes), has a very unique physical appearance due to hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare condition characterized by the absence of sweat glands, hair, and fingernails.

by whatilearned March 13, 2022, 12:27 am

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TIL That character actor William Smith, whose roles included the Russian Spetsnaz colonel in Red Dawn, nearly had a different career path. While in the Air Force Smith attained several top secret clearances and was considered for a role in the intelligence community before he decided on acting.

by whatilearned February 21, 2022, 7:54 pm

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How do you think these Classic Actors/Actresses would have done if they had been casted in these respective roles?

by CopyPastaArchive February 16, 2022, 12:38 pm

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What actors will always be – despite all the other roles they played – THAT character for you?

by QuestionGuy February 14, 2022, 1:41 pm

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TIL the Culinary Institute of America was founded by two women, Frances L. Roth and Katherine Angell, in 1946. They created the school to compensate for the shortage of European chefs coming to the US due to WWII. Their goal was to train a new generation of American chefs to fill these roles.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 5:45 am

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TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 5:47 pm

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TIL Elephants were used as combat in wars as late as the 1890’s and continued to be used in non-combat roles all the way up to the Vietnam War

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 3:23 pm

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TIL actor Daniel von Bargen, who was known for his roles as Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld, Commandant Edwin Spangler on Malcolm in the Middle, and Chief Grady in Super Troopers shot himself in the temple in 2012 in an apparent suicide attempt

by whatilearned December 5, 2021, 10:36 am

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