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 Arkansas will not allow a write in ballot unless the write in cannidate notifies every counties board of elections.
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)
TIL about Cultural Cringe, where people view their own culture as inferior to others (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL That the Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later, (www.vice.com)
TIL Most incels do not commit violent acts, but some have asserted violent domination through mass shootings. (news.harvard.edu)
TIL about The Unnaturals, a sketch comedy show on the former Ha! network starring Paul Feig, Tim Blake Nelson and Paul Zaloom (Beakman from Beakman's World) (www.imdb.com)
When Ha! merged with The Comedy Channel to become Comedy Central, the show continued, but without those three and with Dennis Leary. That’s the only video I could find on YouTube, a half-episode of that season....
n criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future (en.wikipedia.org)
Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment, (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that Duangphet Phromthep, the Captain of the Wild Boars Thai football team who were rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, took his own life in 2023 (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers (www.youtube.com)
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 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.
TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. (historicalmx.org)
TIL Jeremy Brett had a 77-page "Baker Street File" that he wrote and referred to for his iconic performance of Sherlock Holmes (en.m.wikipedia.org)
He conducted extensive research on the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and was very attentive to discrepancies between the scripts he had been given and Conan Doyle’s original stories.[37] One of Brett’s dearest possessions on the set was his 77-page “Baker Street File” on everything from Holmes’...
