› added 12 years ago

110

TIL - Ted Turner, billionaire founder of CNN, created the TV series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Read more barbarapyle.com

via reddit.com

pYPdZ TIL Michael Schumacher donated $10 million to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was the highest individual donation made in the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.
GAwgQ TIL Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, had his application for a US green card rejected due to the short-form UK birth certificate which he submitted not naming his parents. When he applied for a full birth certificate he discovered that his sister was actually his mother.
ykKX TIL in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn’s communicator is a redecorated Gillette Sensor Excel Razor for Women.
M7B4A TIL a Googolpex is a number so large that if you were able to write it out in books the total mass of the books required would be vastly greater than the mass of the observable universe
XBxk TIL a group of bunnies is called a fluffle.