› added 12 years ago

197

TIL That Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.

Read more forbes.com

via reddit.com

J1pDl TIL that Mae West was given a bribe of a 1931 Chevrolet Housecar by Paramount, to persuade her to make movies.
okpL TIL On average, Americans eat 90 acres of pizza per day.
6EMJZ TIL the letter "A" is an upside down ox head - it's from an ancient Egyptian symbol of an ox, and "leads" the alphabet.
GYKK7 TIL Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was a Haitian engineer who lost his life on the Titanic.He was one of only 3 passengers of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic. He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat;they survived but sadly he did not.
9ej6 TIL America’s last third-party candidate to successfully win the presidency was in 1860. The party was the Republicans, and the President was Abraham Lincoln.