› added 12 years ago

85

TIL that Space Invaders was so popular it created a shortage of 100 yen coins in Japan, forcing the government to mint more.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

RpkQ TIL that Mars soil can create fluorocarbons, a greenhouse gas. This can be used to heat the cold planet up, one of the first steps of terraforming.
4dZN TIL In 2005, Kate Winslet joked that acting in a Holocaust movie guarantees an Oscar. Four years later, she won her first and only Oscar for her role in The Reader.
gM1aA TIL of Big Sister, a brothel in Prague where clients could have sex for free after they signed a contract agreeing to be filmed. All rooms in the Big Sister house were equipped with web cams and the ‘action’ streams live via the Internet.
a8nQ0 TIL Manatees control they buoyancy with their farts. They have specially evolved bowel pouches that let them selectively release their flatulence when they want to float up or down.
7rPaX TIL that the Vatican has nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.