› added 10 years ago

208

TIL Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero: Aerosmith than any one of their albums.

Read more engadget.com

via reddit.com

eLQJ TIL the Royal Canadian Mint created a coin with the face value of $1 Million. The coin itself is made of 99.99% gold and weighs over 220 lbs.
YLJB TIL in the movie Lion King, it took approximately three years to animate the two-and-a-half-minute wildebeest stampede scene.
PYmng TIL that in 2011 a giant sculpture of a woman bathing was built in the Alster Lake, Hamburg Germany. It remained in the Lake for 10 days and was made up of a head and 2 knees protruding from the water.
Eg94P TIL that Zelda Fitzgerald wrote 'plagiarism begins at home' in response to her husband, F.Scott Fitzgerald, ripping off lines from her diary for his novels.
awbLb Til that there are huge, diverse 'kelp forests' underwater stretching for thousands of miles, found around coastlines on every continent except Antarctica. Darwin said of their ecosystem "I can only compare these great aquatic forests with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions."