› added 8 years ago

100

TIL Owen Wilson was replaced by Matthew McConaughey in Tropic Thunder after Wilson’s trouble with major depression

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yQY6X TIL Closing Time by Semisonic Is About Childbirth, Not Last Call at a Bar.
ne087 TIL the first person to ever observe individual living sperm cells was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who collected a sample from his wife immediately after intercourse. In his 1677 letter to the Royal Society, “de Natis e semine genital Animalculis,” he describes a scene teeming with tiny “animalcules.”
R5pB1 TIL that Vincent Price was not only an actor and art historian, but also a gourmet chef, and he released not one, not two, but four cookbooks during his lifetime! Price also recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials titled "International Cooking Course."
nWLNd TIL that Alexander the Great once put on a staged naval battle using his favorite food as their weapons, apples.
nLKb TIL Dogfish Head creates beer recipes based upon the chemical analysis of residue found on pottery and drinking vessels from various archaeological sites. They’re called “Ancient Ales”.