› added 10 years ago

268

TIL The Susie G. Komen Foundation has only donated 3.6% of the money it’s raised to metastatic breast cancer research.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

7rK8r TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire co-starred in a movie called Don's Plum in 2001, but the movie was blocked from distribution in the US and Canada because they'd only agreed to star in a "short" film, not a "feature" film.
7rEZX TIL Microsoft sank a data centre to investigate if it could boost energy efficiency. It could sit on the sea floor for up to five years.
LOdQ TIL there are are areas of the world being referred to as “blue zones” where people, perhaps as a result of diet and social structures, can be up to 4 times as likely to reach 90 years old as people in the U.S.
WR0d TIL Actor Jack Nicholson played the role of The Joker in “Batman (1989)” for a % of the film’s earnings instead of his normal $10m salary and made over 5x what he would have gotten as a result
1dy4 TIL Passengers on the Mayflower were allotted a gallon of beer each per day. Given that beer at the time was 5-6% alcohol, one could presume the Pilgrims were inebriated more often than not.