› added 6 years ago

211

TIL the single largest institutional user of fossil fuels is the US Military.

Read more ucsusa.org

via reddit.com

0Ebp TIL that in 16th century London, a law forbade wife-beating after 9:00pm, but only because the noise disturbed people’s sleep.
PYvlL TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.
NX5RQ TIL that in England and Wales, food and alcoholic beverages cannot be consumed on the room a wedding will take place for an hour before the wedding
O9J6 TIL that before Google launched Gmail, Gmail.com was a free Web based email service, Garfield mail, from Garfield.com for fans of the lasagna loving cat.
6WYZ TIL reindeer eyes switch from gold in summer to deep blue in winter