› added 2 weeks ago

3

TIL the most famous video of the Apollo 11 moon landing is not the original footage, but a lower-quality recording of a monitor in Australia. NASA accidentally erased the original tapes.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

O7AX TIL ‘candlestick holders’ don’t exist. A 'candlestick’ is the holder of candles.
R7P59 TIL Eddie Redmayne spent four months researching Stephen Hawking before playing him on-screen when he was forced to sit in a wheelchair for hours, which made it hard to breathe. He watched every single documentary and YouTube video of Hawking and visited a neurology clinic in London every two weeks
XENVQ TIL an alligator's brain weighs between eight and nine grams and takes up only 1/2 a teaspoon.
7EJX TIL that Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz refused to use a laugh track for A Charlie Brown Christmas. He thought the audience should be able to enjoy the show without being cued when to laugh. When CBS executives saw the final product, they were horrified and believed the special would be a flop
Rwpw TIL Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School