TIL Lee Sklar, one of the most prolific session bassists ever, has played on more than 2,000 albums, including records by James Taylor, BB King, Willie Nelson , Phil Collins, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton
TIL Valujet was a low cost airline that was so famous for its cost cutting and safety issues that the DoD denied its bid to fly military personnel. It merged with (and renamed itself after) smaller Ai
TIL about Khun Sa, a powerful Burmese drug lord, who was the main heroin producer 1976-1996 and had an army of up to 30k men. In 1988 he offered to sell his entire stock of heroin to Australian govern
TIL Kansas last elected a Democratic senator in 1932, and both seats have been occupied by Republicans since 1939, the longest current streak of one party controlling both of a state's Senate seats.
TIL Pan Am didn't have domestic routes within the US, it mostly operated international routes. The Civil Aeronautics Board banned the airline from establishing domestic routes. After deregulation in 1
TIL an elderly man in Italy lived for a year with an exposed brain due to scalp cancer that ate through his skull. He had no neurological symptoms except numbness, and his only treatments were wound c
TIL Nazi Germany forced occupied Greece to accept an interest-free loan in 1942. Germany began repaying it in April 1943, but repayments ceased after the war, leaving 476 million Reichsmarks unpaid. G
A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases.
TIL that the spiciest peppers in the world all belong to the exact same species called Capsicum chinense, named because it was mistakenly thought to come from China. It includes the habanero, Scotch b
People with a severe mental illness, such as depressive, neurotic, and stress disorders, alcohol and drug use, and schizophrenia, die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, finds mort
TIL the Brewer & Shipley hit song, "One Toke Over the Line", despite being banned on many radio stations for its drug references, was performed on "The Lawrence Welk Show" in 1971 as a "gospel number"
TIL the famous airplane the Spruce Goose is actually made of birch. A longstanding rumour is that mechanics working on the plane called it the "Birch Bitch."
TIL that in ancient times, labdanum, the resin that is the main ingredient of the amber scent in perfumery, was collected by combing it from the beards and thighs of goats and sheep that had grazed on
A study of more than 5,500 people over the age of 50 has raised a red flag: it found that people with abdominal obesity and vitamin D deficiency have a 123% higher risk of death than those without the
New study links the spread of the internet to a global decline in religious identity. As internet access grows within a country, religious affiliation and religious self-identification tend to decreas
Simple Diet Change Shifted People's Biological Age Markers in Just 4 Weeks: Strongest evidence from eating both plant and animal foods, but with less fat and more carbohydrates, biological-age 3.5 to
