› added 5 years ago

84

TIL the creators of the premise of Interstellar, Lynda Obst and Kip Thorne, first met each other when Carl Sagan set them up on a blind date.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vo5L TIL leeches really do have medicinal properties like they believed in ancient times, and are kept in hospitals to aid recovery from advanced micro­surgery, including the reattach­ment of appen­dages, skin grafts and plastic surgery.
rNdOW TIL that the oldest surviving video tape recording is from May 22, 1958 when the US President Dwight Eisenhower dedicates NBC'S WRC-TV new colour television studios in Washington D.C
yQvAJ TIL USC football player Marion Morrison, an early California bodysurfer, tore ligaments in his shoulder while riding the surf near Balboa Pier in 1926. Finished with organized sports, Morrison made his way to Hollywood and was renamed John Wayne.
NXVE TIL The Vatican’s chief astronomer has stated there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial “brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.
jl0p TIL The first time ‘mammoth’ was used as an adjective was in reference to a 1,234 pound wheel of cheese which was presented to US President Thomas Jefferson