› added 7 years ago

188

TIL that in Texas, sunscreen products are tax exempt.

Read more vertexinc.com

via ift.tt

N7M8J TIL that the inventor of the frisbee was literally cremated into a frisbee when he died.
PYxEn TIL that in the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line "Hasta la vista, baby" is dubbed in the European Spanish version as "Sayonara, baby".
VMQO8 TIL that Peter Butterworth (1915-1979), a British comedy actor, failed his audition for the 1950 movie The Wooden Horse because he "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough". However, he was a POW in Stalag Luft III and actually helped in the real escape that the film/book was based on.
8avY8 TIL in 2015, Forbes named entrepreneur/CEO Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Then in 2016, allegations of fraud collapsed her company's valuation, rendering her stock worthless and reducing her net worth to zero.
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.