› added 1 year ago

75

TIL: Earning four times as much money has about the same impact on happiness as it being a weekend.

Read more pnas.org

via reddit.com

bxwa TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was once covered in highly polished white limestone, before it was removed to build mosques and fortresses.
EgJl7 TIL: weight gain happens because fat cells become larger in both size and number, while weight loss only reduces the size of fat cells, so you end up with a larger number of fat cells than before.
5MPk TIL: Back in the ’60s, the Beatles wanted to make a movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick directing, but Tolkien killed the project.
w1W7 TIL In late 1981, Ronald Reagan started a program of giving “government surplus” cheese to the poor and unemployed Rust Bowl families. The cheese had been stockpiled to keep dairy prices up.
Aj6a TIL of Rocky Bleier, an NFL football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers who was drafted into the US Army and served in Vietnam. Badly wounded in a leg and foot by a grenade, he needed four years to return to the team’s roster, but became a star and helped the Steelers win four Super Bowls.