› added 10 months ago

31

TIL a 240 acre island off the coast of Scotland supplies half the world's curling stones. (Which are actual stones)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

D0xg TIL that the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies, Sir Peter Jackson would like to direct an episode of Doctor Who, and he wants a Dalek in payment.
4kom5 TIL Montana holds the world record for temperature change in a 24 hour period
4XvnX TIL Of William A. Jackson, a former slave of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederates, who regularly watched meetings between Davis and Confederate officials. He escaped in 1861 and went north, giving the union much info about Confederate military deployments and planning.
gMVYy TIL Vendor can get your new credit card information if you cancel a card and get a new one. To be sure to leave a service you need to cancel with the vendor.
JYd1l TIL there is a company that makes "memorial diamonds": synthetic diamonds made from the ashes of cremated human remains. The process takes 6-8 weeks and requires at least 1 pound of ashes.