› added 4 years ago

64

TIL that to promote Man of Steel (2013), Warner Bros paid a professor to create a Superman-centric sermon outline for pastors in order to appeal to Christian viewers.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4kkgJ TIL that almost all chicken meat is female.
wyYJ TIL popular dog actor Rin-Tin-Tin received the most votes for the first Academy Award for Best Actor, but was removed as a choice as the Academy felt a human should win instead
rDwd TIL almost half of all vetoes ever cast since the UN Security Council’s inception came from its member USSR/Russia
rRN8w TIL- In 2007, a man in London sued his doctor after being misdiagnosed with cancer. He was told he only had months to live. As a result, he spent away his entire life savings only to find out his doctors misdiagnosed him.
ANQ9a TIL Iceland has no McDonald's restaurants anywhere in the country. McDonald's left Iceland on 30 October 2009, as a result of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and high import tariff on imported ingredients which required the prices of their products to increase.