› added 8 years ago

93

TIL mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan are named after mountains in Middle-Earth

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZKQD TIL Among the 561 Nobel prize awarded between 1901 and 2013, 2 have been declined. Jean Paul Sartre (litterature) because he would refuse any kind of official honors, and Le Duc Tho (peace) because he thought peace wasn’t yet achieved in his country.
EooX TIL That 78% of NFL players file bankruptcy within 5 years of retirement.
YpBPv TIL Stevie Nicks wrote Stand Back while listening to Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Because Stevie wrote Stand Back using the exact music for Little Red Corvette, she called Prince to tell him about the song, and he showed up at her studio 25 minutes later to record the synthesizers for it.
EgnPP TIL - The Simpsons episode where "Burns Slant-Drilling Co." steals the school's oil is rooted in actual events, such as the East Texas "slant-hole scandal" where an estimated $100 million worth of oil was stolen over several decades from legal owners
7dmM TIL it’s illegal in Queensland (Australia) to own a pet rabbit unless you can prove that you’re a magician.