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TIL of Ken Adam, one of only three World War II Royal Air Force pilots to be born in Germany. After the war, he become a set designer and won two Oscars for Best Art Direction. He was knighted in 2003, and died in 2016.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 9:11 pm

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TIL that Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they chose to set it at nine minutes and a few seconds.

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 4:33 pm

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TIL when it was deemed impossible to shoot the tanker fight in The Spy Who Loved Me on an actual supertanker and no other soundstage would fit the set, Albert R Broccoli commissioned the 007 Stage, the biggest in the world at the time.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 10:23 pm

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A sailor reported for duty on a ship set to spend months at sea.

by cringeyjokesman August 28, 2022, 2:33 pm

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what realization set you free?

by QuestionGuy August 27, 2022, 4:48 am

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A friend set up a charity – 85% goes to good causes. But those causes are not the ones he says he’s going to fund. He’s taking money from people who think they are funding Christian Fundamentalist issues and actually helping people – homeless, poor, sick… is it wrong to dupe the bad Christians?

by QuestionGuy August 27, 2022, 2:43 am

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TIL Production on ALF was tense. The set was elevated and full of trap doors constantly being reset. Due to technical issues the 30 minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot. One especially stressful day Max Wright attacked ALF and the two had to be separated.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 11:08 am

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There was a rubber ducky prop on a popular porn set featured in nearly a hundred different pornographic films between 2005 and 2012. It is likely inadvertently the most photographed rubber ducky in history. Sometimes it’s only a dot in the background like this (NSFW), but the productions I’ve found

by CopyPastaArchive August 24, 2022, 4:55 pm

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TIL that when the Who singer Roger Daltrey was set to promote the SM-58 microphone for Shure, he slammed it on the ground during a speech to prove its durability and carried on speaking with the still-working microphone

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 1:13 am

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Set your wifi password to 2444666668888888

by cringeyjokesman August 22, 2022, 9:49 am

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TIL After the release of the 1965 Czechoslovak film ‘Loves of a Blonde’ hundreds of boys travelled to the town it was set in, because the film falsely depicted women outnumbering men there 16-1.

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 1:02 am

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TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK’s birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 3:11 am

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