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agosto 23, 2023
TIL that if Bill Gates told a Microsoft employee "You’re full of shit. That’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard", that meant that the software mogul was amazed and impressed. "In the lore of Microsoft, if Bill says that to you, you’re made", an employee said.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL an Australian drugs-related jury trial costing over A$ 1 million with 105 witnesses was aborted when it was discovered that four or five of the twelve jurors had been playing Sudoku instead of listening to the evidence for most of the trial.
agosto 23, 2023
TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
agosto 22, 2023
TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL the vocals for the Bonnie Raitt classic "I Can't Make You Love Me" were recorded in only one take. The song was so sad that when asked to record another take she responded "You know, this ain't going to happen."
agosto 22, 2023
TIL that the founders of Lululemon gave it its name because they thought it would sound Western to Japanese consumers, who have difficulty pronouncing the letter L. They thought it would be funny to watch Japanese people try to pronounce the name.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL Of the Curse of the Ninth, the superstition that a composer will die before finishing their tenth symphony. Beethoven and Schubert both died after their ninth symphonies. Gustav Mahler attempted to beat the curse with musical structural changes but he also died before finishing his tenth.
agosto 22, 2023
TIL rapper Mos Def began his career as an actor. Before the release of his critically acclaimed album 'Black On Both Sides' in 1998, he had already starred in multiple sitcoms, had a Visa commercial with Deion Sanders, and played a small role in the short film 'Ghosts' alongside Michael Jackson
agosto 22, 2023
TIL that Charles Martinet, the voice actor of Mario, was living out of a suitcase for 5 years. In 2013, he was evicted from his home due to a legal dispute with the family of his deceased landlord.
agosto 21, 2023
TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It rotates incredibly slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun in around 225 Earth days.
agosto 21, 2023
TIL Sloths can hold their breath up to 40-minutes underwater; Dolphins can hold it for only 20 minutes.
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