› added 2 years ago

123

TIL about the movie "Saved from the Titanic," released just 31 days after the disaster. It starred an actress who'd been aboard the ship and wore the clothes she'd worn the night it sank. Reportedly traumatized by reliving the tragedy, she quit acting soon after. The film was lost in a 1914 fire.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

l75yr TIL Heineken spent $45 million on a 5 second placement of James Bond drinking a bottle on the beach. This paid for half of Skyfall's entire movie budget.
prgN TIL that in the United States, broadcast stations west of the Mississippi begin with ‘K’ and stations east begin with 'W’
YwAr TIL NASA recovered metal from the World Trade Center and used it on Martian rovers as a tribute to those fallen on the 9/11 attacks
LDQ0 TIL that roughly 46% of Americans believe God created humans in present form, sans evolution and this number has been mostly constant over the last 30 years.
jobE TIL: Locusts emerge from their burrows only after prime number of years to make it difficult for predators to evolve - a rare example of prime numbers in nature.