› added 5 years ago

151

TIL both Destiny’s Child and Alicia Keys made their debut on the soundtrack to Men in Black

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9wDYr TIL Richard Scolyer, one of the world’s leading skin cancer researchers, was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain cancer, which is said to be terminal, so he used an experimental skin cancer treatment developed by him and his colleagues to treat it. One year later, the cancer still hasn't returned.
R7kQa TIL that the Babylonians actually discovered Trigonometry about 1,500 years before the Greeks. Not only were their tables more accurate because of their base-60 numerical system (which made thirds more accurate), but their approach using ratios is something relatively novel to us, today.
xV9l5 TIL that the world's primary source of low-background steel (steel produced before nuclear detonations) is the sunken remains of the German High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled after WWI to prevent it being divided amongst the Allies.
ybnv TIL The Wolf of Wall Street used the word “fuck” 569 times, more than any non-pornographic film except a documentary about the word.
MJb0 TIL Nazis once bred violent super-cows in an attempt to resurrect the extinct aurochs of German lore.