› added 12 years ago

186

TIL Kodak employed blind people to develop colour photos and manufacture film because those jobs needed to be done in pure darkness.

Read more petapixel.com

via reddit.com

Br1jy TIL the highest paid public official is not a legislator or head of state. With a salary of 7.09 million dollars it is actually Nick Saban the head football coach for The University of Alabama.
VBjB0 TIL in ‘22 Jim Carrey considered retiring from acting, and producers confirmed they wouldn’t recast Robotnik if he did. But they hoped to entice him with a great script. Carrey requested it be written in gold. In ‘24 Carrey confirmed his return for Sonic 3. Fowler joked the 24k ink script cost $100k
kOKy1 TIL the original name for the snowmobile brand Ski-Doo was "Ski-Dog", but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure meant the current name stuck.
VL1Z TIL SETI is the only organization in the world that publicly has a protocol set in place in the event a signal is received from extraterrestrial life.
NgeN TIL JP Morgan bailed out the US Government in 1895