TIL A man from Spain skipped work for 6 years whilst still being payed before anyone noticed. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studied the brain scans of psychopaths, only to discover that he was one himself | Category: Learned Source More
TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer’s tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas ‘didn’t want her looking too aggressively feminine’. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: ‘No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire’. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL When Tim Schafer, co-designer of Secret of Monkey Island was being interviewed for LucasArts, he said he was a big fan of LucasArts’ game “Ballblaster”. The interviewer told him the game was named “Ballblazer” and only the pirated copies were named “Ballblaster” | Category: Learned Source More
TIL Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’ then wife, was the reason for major changes to the Original Star Wars film. Obi Wan’s death, Leia’s good Luck Kiss and re-editing the trench run to increase tension were all her ideas. She won the Academy Award for editing the film while George did not for directing. | Category: Learned Source More
