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TIL in 2015 Scorsese made $70 million short film to promote casino in Macau. It stars DiCaprio and De Niro, making it the first film all three worked together.

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8aN4V TIL the seared meat does not "seal in flavor" and it actually loses the same amount or more of moisture than non seared meat. Searing simply saved flavor through the maillard reaction.
BrLGL TIL about Agnodice, a Greek female physician. She disguised herself as a man because women are not allowed to practice medicine. She got so good that rival physicians accused her of seducing female patients. She was defended by the women and the law against female physicians in Athens are revoked.
JeXk TIL: The U.S. government has ordered that homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work.
16xy4 TIL that “elephant-sized” sloths and “car-sized” armadillos once built giant tunnels that still stand today
8aR9b TIL Before being unified, Upper Canada was south of Lower Canada