Man compares work helmets given to workers (yellow) and managers (red) in ChinaMay 8 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/interesting ⋅ #yellow #red
Thomas Jane accidentally stabbed Kevin Nash with a real knife during a fight scene in the movie The Punisher (2004). A stunt coordinator had failed to switch out the real knife for a prop knife. Nash continued the scene without realizing he was injured, and the take was kept in the movie.Apr 17 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/interestingasfuck ⋅ #2004
The moment LeRoy Cain, Entry Flight Director for the Space Shuttle Columbia, learns that the shuttle has disintegrated upon re-entry over Texas and orders someone to lock the doors of the Mission Control room in order to preserve data for the accident investigation (February 1, 2003).Mar 19 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/interestingasfuck ⋅ #February-1 #February-1-2003 #2003
Bill Burr is the man who wrote the 2003 NIST manual that recommended password changes every 90 days. He now regrets creating that guideline because it just encourages people to make small alterations to weak passwords (password1 to password2).Feb 20 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting ⋅ #2003 #90
The two versions of the sandwich board from Die Hard with a Vengeance, one with the clean message and the other with markings for the editors to add a message in post-production.Feb 14 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
In the movie adaptation of The Martian, Ridley Scott changed the day the crew left Mars from sol 6 (as it was in the book) to sol 18 just because he wanted to justify using a big bucket of shit to make fertilizer (this is real)May 16 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/shittymoviedetails ⋅ #as-it-was-in-the-book #this-is-real #18 #6
Toyohiro Akiyama was the first Japanese person sent to space. He was not a trained astronaut, scientist, nor an engineer. He was a TV reporter who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. When asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said I can't wait to have a smoke.May 27 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
IKEA Heights was a webseries released in 2009. It was filmed entirely and covertly inside an IKEA store, using the room displays as sets.Feb 18 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting ⋅ #2009
Jim Carrey makes a cameo as Fire Marshall Bill (from the TV show In Living Color) in his own movie, Liar Liar (behind the guy in the red shirt who starts laughing)Mar 3 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/scenes ⋅ #behind-the-guy-in-the-red-shirt-who-starts-laughing #from-the-TV-show-In-Living-Color #TV
Liev Schreiber's monologue from Rick and Morty. A dose of reality delivered by a great script read.Feb 24 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/scenes
The only 1983 Corvette that exists in the entire world.Mar 30 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/interestingasfuck ⋅ #1983
10 years ago, Azer Koculu deleted left-pad from npm. left-pad was a JavaScript package consisting of 11 lines of code. Because many major projects, such as Babel and React, used it as a dependency, they were unable to be built or installed, causing widespread disruption at major tech companies.Mar 31 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/interestingasfuck ⋅ #10 #11
Artemis II astronaut reports to NASA that two Microsoft Outlook instances are running on his computer and neither is working, asking someone to remote in and troubleshoot.Apr 2 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/pcmasterrace
I wonder what the story behind that family photo? Is it a reference to something?Feb 23 ⋅ NewsCards ⋅ r/rickandmorty
