› added 7 years ago

100

TIL: Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.

Read more latimes.com

via reddit.com

8GbG TIL that after a nuclear disaster in Japan in 1999, the operating company declined government funds and paid compensation itself based not on a legal liability but rather its moral responsibility.”
KOlX4 TIL Jawed Karim created Youtube because he couldn't find video of Janet Jackson's boob after the Superbowl "nipplegate" controversy.
Z8aZp TIL Flea, the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, keeps over 200,000 bees in his backyard that he calls "Flea's Bees"
oB40K TIL of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans, only 4% are wild mammals
N7b5N TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys got an F in his high school Music class for writing what would become their breakout hit "Surfin'". The grade was later changed to an A in 2018 when Wilson was 75.