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TIL learned that studio execs balked when Jim Carrey asked for $400,000 for Dumb and Dumber. Then Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out and the studio had to pay Carrey $7 million to do the movie!

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v1MWK TIL that a solar storm in 2012 with a strong Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) missed Earth by nine days. Had the CME hit Earth, it would have inflicted serious damage to worldwide electronic systems and cost up to $2.6 trillion. The recovery time from such a disaster would have been about 4 to 10 years
Wr18 TIL detoxication and purging with any juice fast kick or detox box is a marketed misleading concept which got no scientific medical evidence.
76KZ TIL that over a dozen employees charged with caring for “Koko” the gorilla have reported that she is not adequately cared for and suffers significant neglect
1aAwV TIL one of Anderson Cooper's ancestors was a slave-owner who was beaten to death with a garden hoe... by one of his own slaves
oP8Y TIL in 1996, Canadian PM Jean Cretien was confronted at a rally. With no bodyguards present, Cretien choked out his assailant with his bare hands. This takedown has since been named ‘The Shawinigan Handshake’, after Cretien’s hometown.