› added 1 year ago

41

TIL that the orca star of Free Willy died of pneumonia a year after his own release IRL as a result of failure to adapt to the wild

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8bGZ TIL Richard Branson bought Necker Island when he was just 28 years old. It was on sale for $6million; he negotiated the price down to $180,000.
p8rEZ TIL Anti-Depression Pharmaceutical companies can choose which studies they submit to the FDA, allowing them to claim higher effective rates than the totality of studies suggest.
DGWv TIL: Dr Barry Marshal was convinced that H. pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel prize
p8vAO TIL in russia Until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol was considered to be a foodstuff and not alcoholic.
p87ye TIL by 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert.