› added 9 years ago

111

TIL – Sharks Get Suntans but Don’t Get Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure

Read more news.discovery.com

via reddit.com

d8PYQ TIL Instagram star Dan Bilzerian's father Paul was involved in one of the SEC's longest running fraud cases. He spent 25 hiding assets from the US gov. and the SEC finally admitted defeat. Many believe Dan's fortune didn't come from poker, as he claims, but he simply inherited money from his father.
5E4D TIL that 140 years after an ancient stolen ring was found on a rural farm, a tablet was found at another site (“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens”). One of the scholars who translated it: Oxford prof. J R R Tolkien
LkeNm TIL In 2017, Walt Disney's grandson Bradford was denied his share of the family trust, estimated at $400 million
R7V57 TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial, and therefore popular. They targeted right wing news papers to ensure moral outrage and drive the game to success.
WoDo TIL that in 1978 a physicist was hit in the head by a particle accelerator beam. He survived, finished his PhD, and is still alive today.