› added 12 years ago

171

TIL that Picard’s flute sold for $48,000 at auction in 2006.

Read more yourprops.com

via reddit.com

N7pAb TIL 39 minutes of footage was cut from first John Wick movie and it mostly included visually amazing shots which were "just Keanu Reeves walking in cool environments."
G7NE TIL Whoopi Goldberg was high when she won her Oscar for “Ghost”
pX4O TIL in 2008, Bebo the popular social network was bought from its creators by AOL for $850 million dollars. It was then run into the ground and after 5 years the site filed for bankruptcy and was sold back to the original creators for $1 million dollars.
Bg4dr TIL that ants take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12-hour period. In a 24-hour period, two such rest periods occur, however, only one of them bears any resemblance to what we would call sleep.
ep5YJ TIL of 20-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, who was tortured to death in 2017 by six students at his university after he was accused of stealing from one of them. The students took turns pressing a steam iron against his skin, causing burns over 80% of his body.