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

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DL4p TIL that Miramax was owned by Disney until 2010. That makes Pulp Fiction a Disney movie.
v1OED TIL in 1981 archaeologists discovered a medieval knight's body which still had liquid blood, intact organs and visible irises.
B4yD TIL that Dr Dre has beaten a couple women. Years ago he publicly beat a female reporter at a party while his bodyguard held the crowd back. He also beat his ex girlfriend while they were together.
KO9BR TIL In 1940, Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was evacuated to Ottawa Canada. When her child Margaret was born, Canada declared her rooms at the Hospital as extraterritorial so the baby would have Dutch nationality. As thanks, Princess Juliana has given Ottawa 10,000 tulip bulbs every year since.
EgEA0 TIL while chemical weapons were produced by the Nazis, they were not widely deployed. Other than fear of retaliation, factors which influenced this decision may have been that Adolf Hitler was gassed by British troops in 1918, and that the Nazis never developed effective gas masks for horses