› added 7 years ago

131

TIL Brian Eno wrote the Windows 95 start up sound on a mac

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yVJdv TIL That the Wizard of OZ is only the 1st of 14 original works, and a total of 40 books in a series about the Land of OZ.
AN7Rx TIL that 80% of animals found in Madagascar exist nowhere else on earth
4oKb TIL Cat meat is believed to boost one’s health during the winter months in traditional Chinese medicine. Cat eating is mostly limited with Guangdong province, where local restaurants are supplied by a nationwide network of catnappers who snatch up strays and deliver them by rail.
NoAM TIL that a $350m drillship built in the early ‘70s by US billionaire, Howard Hughes, to collect 'mineral riches’ from the ocean floor was actually a cover for the CIA to be used to lift a lost Soviet submarine, loaded with nuclear missiles, up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 3 miles deep
wLW7o TIL: The Grand Canyon was formed not by the Colorado River cutting down into the landscape, but the landscape rising up and the river roughly maintaining its altitude above sea level