› added 1 week ago

4

TIL Canada’s federal government replaced its 40-year-old payroll system with the Phoenix automated pay system in 2011 to save $70M per year; it ultimately cost over $5.1B.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vPQjx TIL the pressure inside a heated popcorn kernel can reach 135psi before it explodes. The resulting popped kernel is 40 to 50 times its original size
0N7y TIL that in the 1966 film adaptation of “Fahrenheit 451” the credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film’s theme of destruction of reading material.
7roWP TIL: While training for his role in "Django Unchained", Christoph Waltz fell off a horse and broke his pelvis. When he returned to the shoot, Jamie Foxx gave him a gift to make him feel secure: a saddle with a seatbelt.
ep5xJ TIL that football teams wearing red kits perform better than teams in any other colour
WovA TIL that a cup of Campbell’s Tomato Bisque has more sugar than a cup of orange juice, more sugar than 6 oreos, and more sugar than a serving of B&J’s Chunky Monkey.