› added 2 years ago

87

TIL That the Tina Turner hit We don't need another hero, is a post-apocalyptical song written about escaping Mad Max's Thunderdome.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ljoa TIL “thirty-nine places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom.”
VBGxp TIL the movie 'Die Hard' was Alan Rickman's first role in a feature film. Rickman later revealed that he almost turned down the role because he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make
M7RE0 TIL Norway built a doomsday vault on their Arctic territory, Svalbard: A 'seed bank' containing over 1 million seeds from 4,000+ plant species, as a means to protect the world's food supply.
ANYNB TIL There are people whose jobs include masturbating dogs for a living. They are called theriogenologists. 😳
VMQlQ TIL in 2017, five Denver nurses were suspended for opening a body bag and “admiring” the size of the dead man’s genitals.