› added 5 months ago

55

TIL Disney spends about $50M each year on fireworks, over $130k a night. The only consumer that tops this is the military.

Read more boardwalktimes.net

via reddit.com

m18ZE TIL about Spiro Mounds, a pre-European North American city where so much well preserved treasure was found it was called "an American King Tut's Tomb" It was bought by a mining company for $100, looted, mined, and blown up by dynamite.
Wn94 TIL that a single asteroid, named Hebe, is the origin of about 40% of the meteorites that hit Earth.
BJwx TIL that there is a massive Easter Egg involving a hex code and a cypher hidden in the show Archer that hasn’t even come close to being cracked yet.
JYx41 TIL that an uprising occurred in Romania in 1974, after they ran out of "Columbo" episodes, Peter Falk (who played the titular character) was reached out to by their government, so that the movement would quell, and he informed the people that more episodes would get made
7roKp TIL About the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903, in which over 602 people died. It gained a lot of attention as the victims were mainly women and children from an upper-middle class background. The theatre had been falsely billed as “absolutely fireproof”, but lacked basic safety infrastructure.