› added 9 years ago

94

TIL John Lasseter (from Pixar) was fired in 1984 by Disney after pitching an all computer animated movie, it would cost Disney 7 billion to bring him back after buying Pixar in 2006

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N7gb8 TIL in the early 1900s, Dolly Korschel kept a secret lover in her attic for years, had the lover kill her husband after a fight, continued keeping the lover in her attic, and was charged with murder 8 years later but set free because there was a 7-year statute of limitations on murders at the time.
DRgV TIL Kathryn Bigelow is the first and only female to win the Academy Award for Best Director, winning for the 2009 film “The Hurt Locker”
VK5D TIL We are still making scientific discoveries about water because it is so bizarre. Water ice has 15 different phases, and there is now a strange, “quasicrystal” form when the ice is only 2 molecule layers thick.
8nk4 TIL marijuana levels in the bloodstream do not match levels of cognitive impairment, making it difficult to test reliably for driving while stoned
16B4r TIL There were roughly 65 new cases of lung cancer for every 100,000 people in 1992. By 2019, that number had dropped to about 42