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And why does it go in your arm instead of your butt?

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a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
R4Ow TIL Roald Dahl wrote a sequel to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ where they use the glass elevator to go into space and fight aliens. Another sequel, 'Charlie in the White House’, remains unfinished.
Lgdv TIL That a $34 million SR-71 Blackbird fell apart in mid-air due to a 2 inch piece of duct tape
B58K TIL that Bill Gates once released mosquitos during a Ted Talk, stating that “poor people shouldn’t be the only ones to have this experience.”
OoBl7 TIL a man was told to take off his white shoes before entering a Komodo Dragon enclosure so that they weren’t mistaken for mice. The Dragon bit the shoeless man’s foot and the man lost a toe