› added 8 years ago

99

TIL Emma Thompson is the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and writing.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

k6RB TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”
X068X TIL Wendy Williams is NOT the lead singer of the Plasmatics
PYMyZ TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.
p8Vke TIL that some queen ants can live for almost 30 years while male ants live a little more than a week.
nenOo TIL in 1913 John Rockefeller owned 2% of the US GDP, an amount that today would be worth over $409 billion and make him 3 times richer than Jeff Bezos