TIL Scarface (1983) was not only shunned by the Oscars, but actually received a Razzie nomination for Worst Director. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature. (www.theguardian.com)
Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds
TIL: James Cameron ended up marrying the actress (Suzy Amis) who played Rose's granddaughter. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral. (www.bbc.com)
Disney is asked to show some compassion over the use of Spider-Man’s image on a child’s grave.
TIL Someone made a 10 hour long movie that's just paint drying to protest censorship by the British Board of Film Classification. The film was rated suitable for all ages. (m.imdb.com)
Edit: Note: it says Not Rated, that’s for the US. The UK rating is U.
TIL Jane Goodall met her first husband, Hugo van Lawick when he came to photograph her for National Geographic in Gombe Stream National Park and married in 1964. They had a son nicknamed Grub. But ... (people.com)
In this week’s issue, the beloved conservationist reflects on the 60th anniversary of her research, her celeb friends (Leo! Angelina!) her family and two husbands
TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible. (beemission.com)
Where was the world’s oldest honey found? We thought it would be fun to look at the three oldest known honey finds in the world as of September 2019. Just think, these honeys can still be eaten today because antimicrobial honey never goes bad. The world’s oldest known references to collecting honey are from the 8,000 y
TIL Michigan is the top cherry producing state (www.tastingtable.com)
TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers. (www.zdnet.com)
Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.
TIL Ludwig van Beethoven didn't get along with his brother Johann and was heavily opposed to his marriage to a housekeeper. After the purchase of an estate, Johann signed a letter to Ludwig "From y... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities
TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological ... (www.pfizer.com)
TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)
TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL There's a town in Spain that has an annual tomato fight; last year 130 tonnes of tomatoes were thrown by attendees (www.reuters.com)
TIL King Louis XI plotted to kill a court astrologer who correctly predicted a death in his court fearing he'd done it himself. Before giving his guards the signal he asked if he knew when he'd die... (www.heritage-history.com)
TIL Prince was a huge Bangles fan. He wrote then gave them their breakout hit, "Manic Monday". (www.npr.org)
TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name. (www.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Tommy Thompson was an American treasure hunter who successfully found millions of dollars worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. However, he went on the run due to refusing to pay of... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music” (www.theguardian.com)
TIL about vitrification of nuclear waste, wherein nuclear waste is melted down and combined with molten glass. The mixture is cooled in stainless steel canisters where it becomes a solid and can be... (www.hanfordvitplant.com)
What is vitrification? Vitrification is accomplished by mixing waste from underground tanks with glass-forming materials in high-temperature melters.
TIL the first modern, non-Indigenous legal precedent explicitly considering a canoe a "vessel" didn't happen in Canada until 2018. (admiraltylaw.com)
Also, I mentally read the defence’s argument about “muscular power” in the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer!