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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio had to play a poorer version of himself in Wolf of Wall Street because he is richer in real life than the character he was playing. DiCaprio made 59 million for Inception, 20 million for The Great Gatsby and 10 million for Wolf of Wall Street. Those are only three of his films.

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4XBRN TIL Ty Warner, creator of Beanie Babies, gave a woman who was dying of kidney disease $20,000 to get a banned stem cell treatment outside the US that could save her life. He only met her once, when he was lost and she gave him directions in a parking lot.
MvO0 TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.
LkaEv TIL the Koh-i-Noor is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world at 105.6 carats and part of the Britain Crown Jewels. It used to weigh 191 carats but it failed to impress viewers in Britain. In 1852 Prince Albert ordered it to be cut. The significant amount of weight loss was due to flaws found.
E1WDP TIL Horses don't actually sleep standing up; rather they nap standing up, and sleep laying down.
xxPb TIL that the bigger an animal’s brain, the longer it will yawn