TIL that the Hula grass skirt is a fairly recent addition. It arrived from the Gilbert islands sometime in the late 1800s and isn't originally Hawaiian.
TIL in 2013 a Columbian man with HIV was admitted to the hospital with an aggressive malignant cancer that was not human and from a small tape worm. He died 72 hours later.
TIL that in 2004, Reason Magazine sent out their June magazine issue with personalized covers to each one of their 40,000 subscribers. The personalized cover was a satellite image photo of their house
TIL from 1994 to 2002, there was a strange art installation in Portland, Oregon called the "24 Hour Church of Elvis" containing assorted 70s pop culture memorabilia. The "church" would perform real, l
TIL among all active US physicians, only 0.75% of them, or 1 for every 133, are plastic surgeons. There are only 7,719 plastic surgeons among 1,032,365 active US physicians.
TIL Grad student David Radies was doing random sampling for a lichen diversity study in British Columbia when he saw logging tape tied around a red cedar at least two thousand years old. He discovered
TIL that last year the last remaining Shaker community gained its 3rd member. The Shakers was a Christian sect founded in the late 18th century with a peak membership of upward to 4,000. One of their
