› added 6 years ago

126

TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a cancer foundation to fund Children's hospitals

Read more unilad.co.uk

via reddit.com

woodY TIL With flight director Gene Kranz, it took a $5 million campaign to restore the original Mission Control room at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2019, with thousands of backers from 25 countries. Flight control consoles were restored and wall displays were reactivated with Apollo-era projections
8apL TIL: Ancient Romans wore socks with sandals
OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
ADEQl TIL that Cannibalism itself isn't illegal in the US, it's just very difficult to get human meat legally.
NgD1 TIL in the Lebanese government, the President must be Maronite Christian; the Prime Minister must be Sunni Muslim; the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament must be Greek Orthodox and the Chief of the General Staff must be Druze.