› added 3 years ago

209

TIL the HBO drama series 'Succession' hires wealth consultants to advise the writers and the crew how the very wealthy live.. the clothes they wear, how they get off of helicopters, etc.

Read more variety.com

via reddit.com

RJBw TIL that Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, developed a new malaria drug by finding a fever-fighting traditional herb mentioned in a 1,600-year-old text and then isolating the antimalarial compound in the plant.
5VgK8 TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it
P1xgL TIL Randy Johnson, one of the best pitchers ever, is now a professional photographer.
x67Rk TIL that the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," sung by Timon and Pumbaa in the original Lion King, led to a major lawsuit. Originally composed by Solomon Linda in 1939, his family won a settlement for royalties in 2006 worth $1.6 million.
D4Xj TIL Weird Al Yankovic was the valedictorian of his high school