› added 12 years ago

74

TIL due to cocoa butter being a solid at room temperature and melting at body temperate, it is considered an ideal base for medicinal suppositories

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wxO6 TIL that Jeff Daniels only earned $50K for Dumb and Dumber compared to Jim Carrey’s $7Mil.
6p6Y TIL that when famed jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45 carat Hope Diamond, valued at $200 to $250 million USD, to the Smithsonian, he simply shipped it via the US Postal Service in a box wrapped in brown paper.
MryV TIL that prototype cars being road tested wear a white and black pattern camofluage vinyl in order to make it impossible for auto focus equipped cameras to focus on the car.
6EDQm TIL a Rocket League streamer set out to host The Longest Game, knowing that match servers usually crash after an hour or so. The match never crashed in the end (Psyonix also denied any involvement in the match), and was manually stopped after 11 hours.
4MvJ TIL Haydn wrote a Symphony where each player leaves during the course of the finale leaving only 2 violinists. The song was wrote as a protest to his boss the Prince who refused the players time off to see their families.