TIL The United States government has collected over $64 billion from the September 11 Security Fee (officially known as the Passenger Security Fee) since its implementation in 2002.
TIL Marvel secured permission to use Thomas the Tank Engine in "Ant-Man" after the rights holders approved the presentation, with conditions that Thomas could not run over anyone, be portrayed as evil
TIL In 1846, a dead snail was glued to an index card at the British Museum. 4 years later they discovered it was actually still alive. The museum gave the snail a bath and it lived the remaining 2 yea
TIL that about Dr. Katsu Takahashi of the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital in Osaka, Japan, who has been studying the genetic principles of tooth development for years & there are currently
TIL only four players in history have been drafted by teams in the NFL, MLB, and the NBA: Dave Winfield (who was also drafted by an ABA team), Mickey McCarty, Noel Jenke, and Dave Logan.
TIL about "The Doorman Fallacy:" When management focuses too much on one job's function. This is often the fallacy employed when replacing humans with AI.
TIL TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island 12 minutes after taking off, causing the front fueslage to rip away and the remainder of the plane to continue in crippled flight, pitching up and climb bef
TIL that studies show bilingual people often display different personality traits depending on the language they are speaking, scoring higher in traits like extraversion or agreeableness in one langua
A large study says a higher amount of midlife visceral fat is strongly linked to increased brain inflammation and early biological signs of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before memory symptoms ap
Medicare patients in Texas who had an annual wellness visit had a 28% higher rate of mild cognitive impairment diagnosis than matched patients who did not, and follow-up blood tests accounted for only
The Trump administration's DOGE cuts were systematically concentrated in counties that provided weaker electoral support for Trump. Whereas past administrations might provide benefits to electorally v
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
Polypharmacy and Drug-Drug Interactions Among Older Adults: Prescription polypharmacy (five or more concurrent prescriptions) increased from 31.0% to 35.7% while major drug interactions declined from
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
MIT researchers have identified a cellular pathway controlled by the YAP1 protein that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize, discovering that obesity and high-fat diets can trigger this process thr
Commentary: Client-funded earth science risk analyses (e.g., nuclear flood hazards, municipal water planning) can shift uninformed risk onto the public through individually defensible methodological c
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
For most Americans with private health insurance, hospital prices are not set by government, but by hospitals and insurers who negotiate over how much an insurer will pay. Patients and families are re
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.
