› added 7 years ago

284

TIL Wɑlmɑrt leveled prehistoric Native American burial mounds for fill dirt.

Read more archive.archaeology.org

via ift.tt

e0QDk TIL the smiley face logo was created in 1963 by Harvey Ball. He was paid $45 for 10 minutes of work. Ball didn't trademark the logo. Instead, French journalist Franklin Loufrani registered it as "Smiley" for licensing. Today that license generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annually.
wE56 TIL native speakers of tone languages (such as Mandarin and Vietnamese) are much more likely to have ‘perfect pitch’ and can identify musical notes much more accurately than native speakers of non-tone languages, such as English.
dmW9 TIL Katy Perry’s music video for “Dark Horse” has been praised by Egyptologists for its accuracy to the Cleopatra myth.
rRvwd TIL Nancy Grace Roman: called ‘The Mother of Hubble’ telescope program. NASA's 1st chief astronomer. She paved the way in taking Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality. Her interest to astronomy was sparked because of her walks with her mom who would show her constellation and auroras.
Lv0V TIL that Kim Jong-Il bought an entire brewery in England, shipped it piece by piece to North Korea and got it rebuilt there.