› added 8 months ago

72

TIL about the Minnesota project. In WWII 36 conscientious objectors semi-starved to gain insights into its effects

Read more sciencedirect.com

via reddit.com

yQrMV TIL that a large part of eastern Washington State is mostly barren and useless for farming because all the soil got carried away by a series of ancient cataclysmic floods.
MeKyV TIL that Steve Jobs was so good at applying his reality distortion field to convincing employees not to quit, that the original Macintosh motherboard designer planned to just walk into Steve's office and pee on his desk before he'd have the opportunity to convince him not to quit.
Zj1a TIL Robin Williams agreed to voice the Genie for SAG scale pay ($75,000) on two conditions: his name nor image be used for marketing and that the character not take more than 25 percent of space on advertising artwork; Disney reneged on both
VBJWZ TIL The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing independent film ever made
Me6MW TIL Rep. John Lewis co-wrote March, an award-winning graphic novel trilogy about the civil rights movement