› added 12 years ago

208

TIL that Rockstar Games paid for Grand Theft Auto to Receive Negative Press

Read more whatculture.com

via reddit.com

RaO8 TIL Isaac Asimov described Carl Sagan as “one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own.”
Davg TIL there’s a 16-foot-long, 3500 pound, female Great White shark named Mary Lee being tracked while she swims up and down the East coast.
OoabY TIL that one chapter of Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series, contained 81,200 words. By comparison, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone was about 78,000 words in its entirety.
4km8g TIL "Ramsar site" is a title designated to wetland areas recognized for their global importance under the Ramsar Convention, also known as 'The Convention on Wetlands.' This international environmental treaty was signed on February 2, 1971, in Ramsar, Iran, under the patronage of UNESCO.
9Y1rp TIL, that human canines are not for tearing and ripping meat. Instead, our ancestors used them to fight male rivals for mating rights.