TIL Art Competitions were held at the Olympics 1912 to 1948. The winners of the competitions were awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals, similar to the winners of the athletic competitions (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL George Harrison (Beatles) funded The Life of Brian (Monty Python) (youtu.be)
Can skip to 18:40 in this interview documentary of making the Monty Python movie The Life of Brian...
TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merg (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.
TIL that the original Bozo the Clown(1946) Pinto Colvig, had a son, Vance Colvig Jr., who landed the job of Bozo in the first local TV station to franchise the character in 1959. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL about William Phelps Eno. He invented traffic regulations, the stop sign, the crosswalk, the roundabout, the one-way street and pedestrian safety islands. He never learned how to drive. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms. (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)
TIL that in 1563, Johann Weyer argued against Witch hunts and instead that the accused should be treated as having a mental illness. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that VP Kamala Harris' Father Was a 'Marxist Economist'. (www.snopes.com)
TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL don_dickle posts multiple TIL posts every hour and its verry annoying
TIL America and France fought an undeclared naval “Quasi-War” from 1798-1801, during which the Logan Act was passed into law, prohibiting diplomatic negotiations between a foreign power and private (history.state.gov)
TIL The first commercial graphing calculator was introduced by Casio in 1985 for $75. By 1986 it had been adopted by a program in Ohio schools, and other states soon followed (americanhistory.si.edu)
TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that notoriously emasculated husband John Bobbit later also lost all his toes in a contaminated water scandal at Camp Lejeune. (www.the-sun.com)
TIL Queen ants can have lifespan of 20-30 years, and some worker ants can live several years. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that African naked mole rat do not feel the sting of capsaicin (main component of chilies) and acids (link.springer.com)
TIL that the trend of anime's signature large eyes started from mangaka Osamu Tezuka's works, who himself was influenced by Disney and Betty Boop cartoons, and fashion designer Jun'ichi Nakahara's wor (www.cbr.com)
TIL that the trend of anime’s signature large eyes started from mangaka Osamu Tezuka’s works, who himself was influenced by Disney and Betty Boop cartoons, and fashion designer Jun’ichi Nakahara’s works. Other factor such as a proverb involving eyes also played a part.
TIL that in 1973, New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kelich traded families. (www.espn.com)
TIL the US Department of Defense maintained their own Linux LiveCD distro until 2021 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was only about the size of a sheet of office paper. (www.moma.org)
TIL at the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific during WW2, of the 8 men awarded the Medal of Honor, 6 of them were for throwing themselves atop grenades to save nearby comrades (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: The largest extant feline is the Liger, hybrid of a male Lion and female Tiger (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the Pantheon (a former Roman temple, the name translates to "all gods" in ancient Greek), has actually been a Catholic church since 609 AD. (www.aaastateofplay.com)
