› added 8 years ago

127

TIL that Sia’s album “This is Acting” is comprised entirely of songs written by Sia and rejected by other artists.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

d6rK TIL Norway is the most expensive place for beer in the world, the average price for a pint at bar is $11.44.
M7OdB TIL Jeff Bezos' salary as Amazon CEO was always $81,840. His wealth is largely tied to his 11% ownership of Amazon stock which originally cost $18 a share.
b67mj TIL That the deadliest loss for the British in the American Revolutionary War was in Nicaragua.
b6m4p TIL there’s a dinosaur named Qantassaurus, named in honour of the Australian airline Qantas. This was after Qantas shipped the Great Russian Dinosaurs Exhibit, the largest ever travelling dinosaur exhibit, across the world in the 1990s.
OGOy4 TIL Jesuit missionary in China Ferdinand Verbiest won an astronomy contest against the imperial court's top astronomer. His Chinese opponent was exiled and Verbiest assumed the post. He renovated Beijing Observatory and designed what some claim to be the first ever car, among other inventions