› added 5 months ago

20

TIL The classic Budweiser Frogs commercials from the 90s were directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Carribean, etc.)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

A1Lx TIL building a time machine is believed to be scientifically possible but requires building a gigantic particle accelerator in space, stabilizing space-time foam, plucking out a wormhole, enlarging it and connecting it a gravitational field.
kJ975 TIL that in 2001 Everest has been successfully climbed by a blind person. He's also completed the Eight Summits. Since then there are at least 3 blind people who have also reached Everest.
GmJE TIL that ‘Vol De Mort’ means 'Flight From Death’ in French, roughly describing the quest for immortality.
wLEk8 TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.
b9yKa TIL Neanderthals are responsible for the earliest known hominid-made structures, which are about 176,500 years old, consisting of 400 pieces of broken stalagmites arranged into 2 rings that are several metres across, deep inside a cave in France.