The "Today I Learned" Thread • Page 18

TIL that Seal's Kiss From a Rose was originally released on the soundtrack for The Neverending Story III prior to being on the Batman Forever soundtrack

 

had no idea

still a banger

 

I learned this pretty recently too. It’s funny how it’s become so affiliated with Batman

 

there's so much a man can tell you, so much he can say

 

I actually affiliate it more with It's Always Sunny now lol

 

TIL: There’s apparently a weird stipulation in The Strokes’ recording contract in which if a member of the band quits, the entire band must contractually break up.

This is why there’s never been a lineup change during their 25 year history despite instances of their relationships being fraught

 

interesting

 

TIL: Alex Ebert, frontman for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes is (was?) also the frontman for Ima Robot.

Weird-ass crossover I never expected

 

TIL: An IKEA hotel exists

 

TIL both Diesel Fuel and Diesel Engines are named after the German engineer who invented both, Rudolf Diesel.

 

TIL: The Hollywood Bowl is managed by the LA Parks Department which means that it’s technically a public park. You can hang out anywhere in the venue between 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM when shows aren’t happening

 

TIL that stretching room you first enter in the Haunted Mansion has two different mechanisms in the versions at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom. At Disneyland, you’re just going down an elevator. But at WDW, it’s a stationary optical illusion

 

TIL: Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris are the only Disney parks that are 100% owned/operated by Disney.

Disney only has partial ownership of their Chinese parks (Shanghai, Hong Kong) and Tokyo Disney is completely owned by Oriental Land Co. (Disney only licenses their IP for that one)

 

TIL that Eminem is in the music video for Korn's hit single "Got the Life". he was still an up and coming rapper and even tried giving his demo to a very drunk Munky.

 

19 year old J.Cole is in the audience at Dave Chappelle's 2005 concert movie

 

TIL that Dragon Ball is such a gigantic franchise in Japan that has so many important ties to some of the most crucial corporations in Japan that ending it would literally cause a financial crisis in Japan. So it must continue.

 

wow

 

TIL Christopher "Toph" Eggers, who was a major part of his older brother Dave Eggers' seminal 2000 memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is now 41 years old, a licenced therapist in Los Angeles, and is publicly estranged from his brother and has given interviews about his resentment towards him.

 

interesting. I still think about how Eggers had such shitty editing in his books. I liked a few of them but man oh man should they ever have had a better editor

 

TIL you can't use Amazon gift card balance to buy other gift cards. This is actually a bannable offence.

I found this out when I googled if I can use my Amazon birthday gift cards to get Visa or Uber cards off Amazon.

 

There's an art book called Library of Dust and it's photographs of thousands of corroded urns from unclaimed cremated remains of inmates from the Oregon State Insane Asylum. Came across the book for sale and I've been thinking about it nonstop. Idk it really stuck with me. I guess there's a documentary too I may try to seek out

 

sounds like you should buy it

 

TIL that the Bond game for N64 is titled Goldeneye 007

I probably knew this all along but for 30 years I've never not referred to it as Goldeneye or Goldeneye 64 and have not once until today heard someone call it Goldeneye 007.


Edit: I learned it from Jeopardy (not r/gaming) but when I googled the game, this was the first thing that came up

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/uKj4uxXt5Q

 

There’s a light and dark brown sugar. I don’t bake. And I use to buy whatever I saw on the shelf if I needed it, and idr which one it is. It may have been light

 

TIL Iowa is surprisingly the state that eats the most pizza