› added 1 year ago

74

TIL Queen of Hollywood, Carole Lombard, Who Died in a Plane Crash Flying Home from a War Bond Rally, Had a Liberty Ship Named for Her

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

oB1jY TIL a study conducted at the University of Montreal showed that young people who played the 1996 game Super Mario 64 for just two months had increased spatial and episodic memory, which improves brain capacity and helping to forestall dementia.
WmrN Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat – they were fed to the lions.
6EZMQ TIL that Philadelphia, LA, and San Francisco burn old money to help power their city. And Phoenix uses old money (which has been converted) to insulate homes.
P1AEe TIL director Werner Herzog infrequently hosts his own film school that teaches such things as "the art of lockpicking", "The creation of your own shooting permits" and "The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully" among other things.
wLov8 TIL the first planet we landed probes on besides earth was not Mars but Venus