› added 1 year ago

48

TIL Bill Murray doesn't have an agent and only fields offers via a voice mailbox that he rarely checks. Apparently this is how he missed out on films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters Inc, The Squid and the Whale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Little Miss Sunshine, he never checked

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nW4xG TIL one species of redwood tree is deciduous (Loses its leaves and changes color). The Dawn Redwood was thought to be extinct for millions of years and is an endangered species.
P1W8G TIL the placebo effect varies with tablet colour. Red, yellow, and orange pills are associated with a stimulant effect. Blue and green are related to a tranquilizing effect. Hypnotic, sedative, and anxiolytic drugs were more likely than antidepressants to be green, blue, or purple.
RG86 TIL Guy Fawkes wasn’t executed, he died by breaking his neck falling from the platform built to hang him
E1b9w TIL that the name “Karen” (apart from its slang usage in the past few years) refers to an indigenous, primarily farming people living in villages on the border between Thailand and present-day Burma (Myanmar), as well as the languages they speak.
ODgR TIL there is no evidence to suggest that Marie Antoinette ever said, “let them eat cake.” Scholars think the phrase was a common insult used to criticize aristocratic figures in the 18th century.