› added 11 years ago

450

TIL While shooting the blues brothers movie, They had a budget for cocaine.

Read more vanityfair.com

via reddit.com

R5n4Q TIL: Require 4 healthy adult guinea-pigs, 8 sheep, 8 goats for Safety, Safety & Potency Tests related to Anthrax (Pages 338, 339)
b6yK9 TIL Baby Blue (Badfinger song, the one from Breaking Bad's last scene) was written about a lady called Dixie Armstrong, whom Pete Ham really liked.
rR4Dw TIL that Carlo Kaiser had a decade long career as a professional soccer player, during which time he managed to hide the fact that he was a bad player through various techniques, such as faking injuries, changing teams, and befriending journalists who would write fake articles about him.
Okw4 TIL various studies have shown that coffee prevents cancer, causes cancer, makes you live longer, makes you die younger and reduces your risk of diabetes.
Z881R Alan Shepard became the first American (suborbital) space traveller on May 5, 1961.