TIL during the Korean War, American and Greek soldiers held Outpost Harry, a strategic position about 60 miles northeast of Seoul, against Chinese assaults. At times outnumbered 30:1, they endured mas
TIL that after WWII, mutton consumption declined and almost disappeared in the US. American GI's were fed canned mutton during the war and looked down on the meat ever since.
TIL in the hit 1992 horror movie Candyman, actor Tony Todd had real, live bees inside his mouth for the famous scene where bees crawl out of Candyman's mouth. He negotiated a contract clause that paid
TIL In 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls stole a heavily armed Confederate military ship He disguised himself as the captain, sailed past multiple Confederate forts using secret hand signals a
TIL a geologist was ridiculed for decades for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite images proved him right in the 1970s. He finally received geolog
TIL that working night shifts is linked to faster biological aging, and night shift workers lose almost a year of life expectancy by their mid 40s compared to day workers.
Today I learned that Fillmore, the hippie van from Pixar’s Cars, was originally named “Waldmire” after artist Bob Waldmire whose work often focused on Route 66. Waldmire, a vegetarian, refused to let
TIL the genesis of the Chappelle Show sketch with Wayne Brady came from his anger at Dave Chappelle for a Paul Mooney joke about him. Brady feels the famous sketch showed his larger range and opened u
TIL Watson Brake in Louisiana was built before Stonehenge, and 1000 years before the Egyptian pyramids, but is inaccessible to the public because one family member refuses to sell the land to the Stat
TIL ~1 in 1,000 females have Trisomy X (extra X chromosome). It's rarely diagnosed; fewer than 10% know they have it. They can have learning disabilities, wide-spaced eyes, incurved little fingers, ea
TIL Dipak Pokhrel, a co-pilot for Yeti Airlines, died in a aviation accident in 2006. 17 years later, his soon-to-be-pilot widowed wife Anju Khatiwada, met the same fate, on the same airline, in 2023.
TIL during the Battle of Crécy in 1346, the completely blind King John of Bohemia insisted on fighting and ordered his knights to tie their horses to his so he could swing his sword, resulting in his
