Home
Random
Trending
Today
2
posts added
Search
› added
11 years ago
188
TIL Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of prostitutes.
Read more
maggiemcneill.wordpress.com
via
reddit.com
J1PgQ
TIL the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" initially lost money at the box office. It wasn't until a rerelease in 1949 that its studio finally earned a profit on the film.
awDP0
TIL To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.
X1eP
TIL that Tolkien constructed the grammar and vocabulary of not only one, but at least fifteen Elvish languages and dialects.
wM66
TIL the Third Reich devised the idea of carrying the Olympic torch through a relay system
W7QoB
TIL how platform like uber make our food more expensive. ( Spoiler: they take their cut too, not just delivery fee)