› added 10 years ago

203

TIL America hands out $25 billion a year in subsidies to the farm industry. Three fourths goes to just 10 percent of the farmers

Read more bloomberg.com

via reddit.com

4kKQX TIL that Scooby Doo (2002) was initially Rated R and had to be re-cut to PG, which included using CGI to cover up cleavage!
40bJ TIL that two Undercover Agents repeatedly tried to buy marijuana at the Lagunitas Brewing company taproom, but were unable to make any busts as generous patron’s kept trying to give them the drugs for free.
R7Vd1 TIL during the period between 1964 and 1973, US dropped 260 million bombs in Laos, a country smaller than Michigan. The number of bombs dropped there is larger than bombs dropped on Europe during the whole of World War II.
OoAxX TIL a study found that brains of doers differ from brains of procrastinators. Procrastinators have a larger amygdala/poorer connection with the part that helps focus by blocking competing emotions/distractions, which shows that emotional mgmt is more problematic than time mgmt in procrastination.
1aLnP TIL the reason for the Netherlands not being underwater is due to its complex network of dikes, ditches, canals and pumping stations that have been built through the course of its history. It is so intricate that controlled flooding can create a ring of fortification around Amsterdam, its capital.