TIL: Edison shocked elephants with AC to disprove Tesla, trying to prove that DC is safer (science.howstuffworks.com)
TIL Pablo Escobar was worth 25 billion at the time he was a drug lord. (www.britannica.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 that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations (www.nbcnews.com)
TIL there's an Arkansas City in Kansas, and Arkansas is pronounced with the 's' so it rhymes with "Kansas" (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Leona Helmsley was a real piece of shit (en.wikipedia.org)
During the trial, a former housekeeper testified that she had heard Helmsley say: “We don’t pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes”, a quote which was identified with her for the rest of her life.
TIL Chris Rock has a Non Verbal Learning Disorder (www.health.com)
TIL that homeopathy isn't about placebo and people actually think there is a non placebo effect (en.wiktionary.org)
TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit. (www.rutgers.edu)
TIL the Yom Kapur War happened during Ramadan. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel. (en.wikipedia.org)
IL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes… (candyusa.com)
TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University. (www.lib.lsu.edu)
TIL TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL in 2019, the Netherlands became the first country to completely ban the Hells Angels biker gang. In July of 2022, the Supreme Court Of The Netherlands reaffirmed this ban and made it permanent. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. They were both nephews of Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
TIL that the American Revolutionary War extended to the modern-day Bahamas where Continental Marines conducted the Marine Corps’ first ever amphibious landing in Nassau to seize gunpowder. (www.usni.org)
TIL there is a world championships for playing the air guitar. The motto of the competition is "Make Air Not War". (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Only credentialed delegates, media, and guests can attend the Democratic Convention in person. (www.nbcchicago.com)
TIL Arkansas will not allow a write in ballot unless the write in cannidate notifies every counties board of elections. (static.ark.org)
TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself. (airandspace.si.edu)
TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation. (worldpopulationreview.com)
TIL that in Victorian London mail delivery routes would go by every house 12 times a day. (www.mentalfloss.com)
