› added 12 years ago

73

TIL The Jeopardy “Think” music earned Merv Griffin over 70 million in royalties

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

J9Qv TIL that Smaug, the reclusive red-gold dragon from The Hobbit, has an estimated worth of $54.1bn. It is #2 Richest Fictional Characters.
JYaL1 TIL Pablo Escobar burned 2 million dollars to keep his daughter warm when she was hypothermic
KYX0E TIL if an ant fell from a plane, it would not take damage or die.
wLoJ6 TIL the yellow cab of NYC were started in 1907 when a businessman, outraged at being charged $5 dollars ($122 today) for a 1/4 mile horse and carriage trip, decided to start his own taxi "service in New York and charge so-much per mile
L7Jv TIL: The world’s oldest stash of marijuana was found in a 2,700 grave in western China. It belonged to a blue-eyed Caucasian man who was a local shaman.