› added 9 years ago

164

TIL that MSG has received a wrongful bad rap, and likely isn’t dangerous as a food additive.

Read more preventcancer.aicr.org

via reddit.com

Zpll4 TIL: The 34 yr-long Lenski Experiment has studied over 75,000 generations of E.coli since 1988 to understand evolution.
VMBW4 TIL not long before his death, Freddie Mercury, confined to his bed, got to see an advance copy of the "Wayne's World" scene with Wayne and Garth headbanging to "Bohemian Rhapsody". He loved it and approved of the song's use in the film. The movie, in part, helped launch Queen's comeback in the USA
e06Pg TIL In 2001, Tony Kirwan quit his job as an electrician and founded Destiny Rescue, a nonprofit dedicated to getting children out of sex slavery. Since 2011, the organization has rescued almost 2,000 children.
awowN TIL there’s a cafe in east London called the Cereal Killer Cafe which is solely dedicated to selling cereals from across the world.
a8rxM TIL that actor Mark Lindsay Chapman, lost the part of John Lennon in a 1985 biopic because Yoko Ono thought him having the same name as Lennon's killer was "bad karma". Linsday would eventually play Lennon in the 2007 movie Chapter 27... a movie that mostly focused on his killer, Mark David Chapman