› added 1 year ago

95

TIL that the stage of Eurovision 2009 used about 30% of the entire global LED screen stock at that time.

Read more eurovision.tv

via reddit.com

9Y07M TIL that former CEO of Nissan Carlos Ghosn, who is currently accused of major financial crimes, escaped from Japan by being stuffed into an audio equipment box to evade airport security
VBNy8 TIL the waving inflatable tube man was invented in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, he was influenced by Caribbean Carnival celebrations
8aRpG TIL there once was a guild in Germany that entirely controlled the production of gingerbread.
vPlbr TIL that the total mass of things that humans have created exceeds the total mass of living things on Earth
mjkP TIL that during America’s eugenics movement some 60,000 people were involuntarily sterilized. The Supreme Court upheld the practice in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”