› added 8 years ago

147

TIL that the cost of “Prometheus” movie budget would be enough to keep the search for real extraterrestrial life going for 52 years

Read more universetoday.com

via reddit.com

NWEM TIL Michael Jackson (born 8/29/58) caught on fire on 1/27/1984, 9282 days after he was born. He died 9282 days later.
YpPxG TIL Minnesota Has Been Refusing to Return a Captured Confederate Flag to Virginia for More Than a Century
OYMe TIL before the finish line, a Spanish sportsman running in second place, noticed that the Kenyan running in first place has lost his way, instead of taking advantage of the situation, he guided him all the way to the end and let him win
rNwRd TIL that Jim Crow wasn't a real person, but a caricature of a black stereotype played by a white man in blackface named T.D. Rice in the mid 1800s.
vdGL TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.