TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Boeing, NASA, and United Airlines test sustainable aviation fuel (innovationorigins.com)
TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)
Great story about a small Danish town that helped rescue Jews during World War Two (www.bbc.com)
TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)
Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....
TIL that the only part of the UK that officially speaks English is Northern Ireland. (populationdata.org.uk)
Surprisingly, there is no law declaring English the official language of the UK....
TIL - After World War II, thousands of Nazis fled to South America along so-called ratlines — often with the help of Catholic clergy (www.dw.com)
Study finds SARS-CoV-2-associated sepsis was more common, deadly than previously thought (medicalxpress.com)
The colour of the Sun is white (www.wtamu.edu)
The sun is not yellow or orange as we see in books and movies. It emits all the colours in the visible spectrum (also in other spectrums as well) making it white!
TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)
TIL: In the song DARE it's "you've got to press it on you" rather than "you've got depression on you" (genius.com)
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
TIL that in the US, liberal adolescents are much more likely to experience depression than their conservative counterparts. This divergence in depression rates only started recently and is growing (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL of the Mobile phone throwing competition that originated in Finland (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
TIL Why giraffes have patches (pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)
TIL that player behaviors to a software bug that created a pandemic in World of Warcraft had similarities to COVID-19 in the real world (en.wikipedia.org)
… researchers noted the similarities between the game and the real-world pandemics. Both had an immediate impact on dense urban areas, which limited the effectiveness of containment procedures in stopping the spread of disease, while air travel, like fast travel, allowed infections to spread across large parts of the world...
TIL Legionnaires' disease (form of walking pneumonia) got its name from an outbreak at an American Legion convention (99percentinvisible.org)
TIL that The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice (ece.engin.umich.edu)
TIL the adjective 'daily' in the lord's prayer is actually written in the original Greek as *epiousion*, which occurs nowhere else in known history (en.wikipedia.org)
the full line being “Give us today our epiousion bread”...
TIL in Australia the name of the band "AC/DC" is pronounced "Acca Dacca" (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL researchers reviewed 40 episodes of the "Dr. Oz Show" and discovered that almost half of the medical advice had no supporting evidence (www.reliasmedia.com)
TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)
Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...
TIL Peter Molyneux failed his first game so badly he started a baked bean export company, which got confused with a software firm and kickstarted his development career (en.wikipedia.org)
After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems because they confused the baked bean company’s name “Taurus” with a software company “Torus”, and he used the hardware to create a database system for the...
