› added 7 years ago

71

TIL Trip Adler CEO of Scribd earned the company’s first $17 in revenue by playing the saxophone outside Scribd’s office at Christmas time.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

epj9n TIL that the entire astroid belt combined is roughly 3% of the mass of the Moon. 60% of the asteroid belt's mass is contained within four objects: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea.
pYRwp TIL: Time spent in outdoor activities in relation to myopia prevention and control: a meta‐analysis and systematic review (Outdoor time is considered to reduce the risk of developing myopia. )
loBR7 TIL one of the symptoms of hookworm disease is a desire to eat soil.
wMQW TIL The poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today, and has had a massive impact on the history of Christmas gift giving
xmZg TIL actor Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) grew up in a small town in Wales called Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch (58 letters)