› added 7 years ago

395

TIL In 2009, Stephen Hawking held a reception for time travelers, but didn’t publicize it until after it had happened. This way, only those who could travel back in time would be able to attend.

Read more huffingtonpost.co.uk

via ift.tt

GDyj TIL there’s an organisation that buys CO2 emission permits in order to take them out of the system. Fewer permits mean less pollution.
KOmJw TIL that the comedy Taking Care of Business (aka: Filofax) in 1990 that starred James Belushi and Charles Grodin was actually the first screenplay written by J. J. Abrams who later went on to make the Star Trek and Star Wars films
mxv1o TIL that Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian contains so much violence that it is considered "unfilmable" - a notion that McCarthy himself denies.
6NNQ TIL That Dreamcast games are still being made
KOJPw TIL in 1998, Disney's copyright on Pluto, set to expire in 2003, was extended by the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Sonny Bono was an American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and congressman who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher.