› added 10 years ago

158

TIL Finland is a future-obsessed nation. It was the first country in the world to offer a master’s degree in futures studies, has a special parliamentary committee for the future, and its government is required by law to produce an official review of the future every four years.

Read more demoshelsinki.fi

via reddit.com

Drvg TIL Lots-o’-Huggin bear from Toy Story 3 was originally meant to appear in the first film but the technology needed to animate his fur did not yet exist.
epj5b TIL Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 of the US Constitution makes export tariffs illegal.
loKjV TIL ln 1847 the Choctaw nation sent $170 to Ireland for the potato famine, 16 years after the Trail of Tears. In 2016 a statue in Midleton, Ireland was erected symbolizing the bond between them.
6oNl TIL Peter Capaldi was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.
5YXeR TIL Walt Disney proposed to his eventual wife by saying, "I've got $75; shall I buy a new car or a wedding ring?"