› added 3 years ago

78

TIL that Andrzej Sapkowski sold the rights to CD Projekt Red to create the Witcher video games for a lump sum of $9500

Read more comicbook.com

via reddit.com

OoopR TIL: Chernobyl was closed in 2000, Japan has still most of the nuclear reactors in standby.
XE6YD TIL Apollo 11 was landed on the moon using a computer that had 1300 times less processing power than iPhone 5s.
gMYQ7 TIL Mosquitoes love type O blood for no good reason. -- protect yourself with a goid insect repellent!
Pr8G TIL for a Make A Wish request, Journey visited a boy suffering from cystic fibrosis. They let him be the first person outside of the band hear the song, Only the Young. The next day the boy died.
p8ZeG TIL Pakistan's name is actually an acronym: (P)unjabi, (A)fghani, (K)ashmiri, (S)indhi, and Balochis(TAN), with an extra ‘I’ to make it easier to pronounce