› added 6 years ago

773

TIL that Ramin Djawadi, the composer for Game of Thrones, has the sensory condition Synesthesia, which allows him to visualize and associate music with color.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

6El87 TIL about the windshield phenomenon, the observation that since the early 2000s people often no longer have to clean a bunch of insects off the windshields of their cars after a long drive. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations because of human impact on their ecosystem.
mPYx TIL that Botox is the most poisonous substance known to man. A couple of teaspoons would be enough to kill everyone in the UK. A couple of kilos would kill every human on earth.
XEvdD TIL that radioacive carbon-14, residue left from nuclear detonations in the 50s and 60s has been detected in deep-ocean creatures
RvaQ TIL that “Interstellar” has the most footage ever shot using 15/70mm IMAX cameras for a film, and, due to the film industry’s rapid conversion to digital projection formats, will potentially be the last feature film ever to be projected on 15/70mm IMAX film.
d86YB Moss is the gold standard among natural toilet papers.