4kx9g TIL that in the 80’s Dolly Parton started a local program saying if two people partnered together and both graduated high school, she would give each of them $500, this dropped the dropout rates from 35% to 6%
x6DJ5 TIL in 2013 it was reported that Robert Downey Jr. was paid $50m for The Avengers, while some of his costars made just $200K. RDJ reacted by threatening to quit the MCU; he wasn't "going to work for a place where they treated his colleagues like shit." His threats worked, his costars got huge raises
5V4W9 TIL Biggie cried after rap nemesis Tupac was killed; "He was crying, and seemed afraid ..“Shit got fucked up somewhere along the way. But that was my n-gga.”
M75b0 TIL that Operation Crossbow was a WWII Allied campaign to locate and destroy Nazi V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket sites, diverting huge bombing resources away from other strategic targets.
j6Y8j TIL about Hostile Architecture and how they're used to control public.
0dL7p TIL of Tony Cicoria. After being struck by lightning he developed an obsession with the piano, taught himself to play. Among other pieces he composed "Lightning Sonata".
grNV8 TIL About James Hampton, an unknown janitor who collected scraps and secretly built artwork using it in a garage. His art, called "Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly" was only found after his death, and is currently on display at the Smithsonian.
LQKvV TIL Hayabusa Mission from Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) was the first successful mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth. Dust from Itokawa Asteroid was found to be "identical to material that makes up meteorites."
b6VR7 TIL about Jimmy the crow, who was a raven actor that appeared in over 1000 films including Wizard of OZ.
QNpvM TIL that Coca-Cola commissioned an Atari 2600 game where Coke fought an invading force of Pepsi enemies. Only 125 copies were made
AN8rg TIL that the human body constantly emits a faint, visible light, a phenomenon known as biophoton emission or ultraweak photon emission (UPE), which is roughly 1,000 times less intense than what the human eye can perceive.
yVmJV TIL that sound frequency exposure has measurable effects on stress-related hormones, increasing oxytocin (for social bonding/ love) and reducing cortisol (clinical stress marker) according to research