TIL that the oldest sitting Senator and third in line for the Presidency Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was born on September 17, 1933, making him older than the chocolate chip cookie, radar, the ballpoint p
TIL that New Zealand has a no-fault accident compensation system that covers visitors from overseas. If you're injured in an accident while visiting, ACC can cover you even if nobody else was at fault
TIL The Ashes is a cricket series played between England and Australia. The term emerged in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper after Australia's 1882 victory. The obituary stated th
TIL Mickey Thompson began working on a machine to quickly mold dough into bagel shapes in the 1920s, but repeatedly failed. His son Daniel began designing his own bagel-making machines in the 1950s an
TIL that pet food is unregulated in Canada. Unlike human food or animal feed, "Pet food is not a comprehensively regulated commodity", the Canadian government says.
TIL Mount Kailash has no successful record of ascent. Mountaineer Reinhold Messner was given the opportunity to climb it in 1980s , but he declined, saying "If we conquer this mountain, then we conque
TIL that Frank Shackleton, the brother of famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, was one of the men accused of stealing the Irish Crown Jewels in 1907, a theft which has never been solved.
TIL that Brighton City Airport in the UK, is the oldest airport that was designed for commercial use, to still be operating. It is often used by filmmakers who are wanting to depict small or pre-war a
TIL that in 1674, English physician Thomas Willis documented testing for diabetes by tasting patients’ urine, noting that diabetic urine could taste “wonderfully sweet” like honey or sugar
TIL the popsicle was invented by accident in 1905 when 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson left a glass of powdered soda on his porch during a record-cold night and it froze around the stick he had u
TIL under Dutch law, when a car hits a cyclist or pedestrian the driver is liable for at least 50% of the damages regardless of who was at fault, and 100% if the person hit is under 14, because driver
TIL that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing that Counter-Strike developers had to shut their doors to block out the speakers
TIL in 1984 a gunman named Denis Lortie attacked the Quebec parliament and was talked into surrendering by the unarmed Sergeant-at-arms, René Jalbert, who spoke directly with Lortie until he was convi
TIL that Katharine Hepburn and Stanley Kramer put their salaries in escrow to make “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” because Spencer Tracy was so ill they didn’t know if he would be able to finish the fi
TIL that a epistle attributed to an early Christian Teacher named James repeatedly stresses the sin of being rich and goes so far as to say the rich abuse the common man and are your enemy. He goes on
TIL that US TV and radio stations are legally named using 4-letter call signs starting with 'W' or 'K'. Stations east of the Mississippi River must start with W (like WABC), while stations to the west
TIL about the Gnadenhutten Massacre. It was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania. Non-resisting men, women and children were
TIL The Corwin Amendment was passed after Lincoln was elected to keep the nation together by protecting slavery from Constitutional intervention. It passed Congress but was never ratified since Southe
TIL In losing chess, a chess variant where the goal is to lose by getting your pieces captured or getting stalemated, it is known that 13 of white's 20 opening moves lead to a forced win for black.
TIL that when construction of Florence Cathedral began in 1296, its designers planned a massive dome even though no one knew how to build it. More than a century later, Filippo Brunelleschi solved the
