TIL: There is a river called "Another River" in Alaska. Another River is a river located within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, in the United States. "Ano
TIL that Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) was originally pitched as starring Varan, Anguirus and Baragon as the enemy monsters. Interference from Toho forced th
TIL that scientists will sometimes use single-cell hybrid human-hamster cells called "Humsters" in order to avoid the legal constraints imposed on using unhybridized embryonic human stem cells. Humste
TIL Jamestown in 1607 was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. By the time the Mayflower pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, Jamestown already formed a state legislature and h
TIL that mushrooms and crabs use the exact same base material (chitin) for structure. Mushrooms stay soft and edible because their chitin is mixed with flexible proteins, while crustaceans use mineral
TIL the 50 million Francs of the Louisiana purchase were used to finance preparations for a 200k man army to invade Great Britain. The United States had partly funded the purchase by a loan from Barin
TIL that the ESA–NASA spacecraft SOHO was designed to study the Sun, but has helped discover over 5,000 comets, most of them spotted by volunteers searching through its images online.
TIL that Dillon, South Carolina, was once known as the "Wedding Capital of the East" because South Carolina allowed people as young as 14 to get married without other requirements.
TIL in 1923, after bandits kidnapped a group of foreigners in China, two American journalists arranged a messenger service for the hostages. They commissioned locally printed stamps reading “Pao Tzu K
TIL that from 1900–1925, motorists entering the Swiss canton of Graubünden had to turn off their engines and have their cars towed by horses or oxen. This was because voters used direct democracy to b
TIL even though lasers are usually associated with heating things up (e.g. laser cutting), they can also be used for cooling. Laser cooling allows to cool atoms or molecules almost to absolute zero.
TIL that ancient animal engravings in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert are only visible for about 90 minutes each morning, when the rising sun illuminates the rock at just the right angle.
