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 of a strange coincidence between an episode of Seinfeld and the OJ Simpson muders. (www.imdb.com)
Senfeld S5E9: Because Elaine is dating a man with the same name as New York serial killer Joel Rifkin, she wants him to change his name to a less embarrassing one and suggests O.J.; about six months after this episode aired, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her friend.
TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs (www.kiplinger.com)
TIL South Carolina grows more than twice as many peaches than Georgia (www.statista.com)
TIL in 2013, an Italian mafia "Ndrangheta" made more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined (€53bn / £44bn) (www.theguardian.com)
TIL - about Louis Wain and his portrayals of cats. Before Wain, cats in England were often thought of with contempt, but his work helped to show them as something to be liked, admired and even loved (illustrationchronicles.com)
TIL - Laboratory experiments show that bacteria really do eat and digest plastic (www.sciencedaily.com)
TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace. (www.britannica.com)
TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)
TIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts (www.historic-uk.com)
TIL how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
Stop wasting your time and $ on mobile game. Get real game. Console, PC master race, …
TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL Someone made a 10 hour long movie that's just paint drying to protest censorship by the British Board of Film Classification. The film was rated suitable for all ages. (m.imdb.com)
Edit: Note: it says Not Rated, that’s for the US. The UK rating is U.
TIL that The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice (ece.engin.umich.edu)
TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe (news.bbc.co.uk)
TIL That Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State, Even Mississippi (www.forbes.com)
TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditions (www.bbc.com)
As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated,...
TIL about a collection of math problems, known as “The Millennium Problems” that will earn the solver a $1 million prize (www.claymath.org)
A collection of mysterious and unsolved math problems, also known as “The Millennium Problems” are 7 extremely challenging and complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Solving any of these problems would not only advance our understanding of mathematics but also earn the solver a...
TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)
TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities
TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name. (www.wikipedia.org)
