› added 11 months ago

26

TIL that when Under Siege was released, it became the highest-grossing movie to have no advance screenings for critics.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N7lLM TIL - The country of Vanuatu has an underwater post office. It is located "50m offshore" and is 3m below the surface. The post office even has a special cancellation stamp that can be used underwater!
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
QJBKp TIL the UN estimates that humans are causing 150+ species of animals and plants to go extinct per day, 1000x above the natural rate, making this the greatest mass extinction since the age of Dinosaurs.
804L TIL William Hung of American Idol fame gave up his music career in 2011 to become a Technical Crime Analyst for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
6WGW TIL that a physics professor at NYU managed to publish a 100% bullshitted paper in a respected academic journal to show that they would publish anything that “sounded good and flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions”.