TIL that the Menendez brothers are visible in the background of a 1990 Mark Jackson basketball card, having bought courtside tickets during a lavish spending spree following the murder of their parent
The reduced risk of heart disease seen in people who are overweight or have obesity taking the weight loss drug semaglutide may not be due to a drop in weight alone. Results suggest that semaglutide s
TIL a 1963 Barbie outfit "Barbie Baby-Sits" came with a bathroom scale set at 50 kg (110 pounds). To scale Barbie is 1.75 m (5'9"), so this is underweight. It also included a book titled How to Lose W
Ultra-processed food and mental health: In a 20-person preliminary study, reducing ultra-processed food intake by more than 85% was associated with moderate to large improvements across three measures
TIL that during WWII, the U.S. government outlawed pre-sliced bread. The ban was supposed to save packaging materials and keep bread prices down. Instead, it enraged consumers, caused a bread knife sh
A large study shows that patients taking Ozempic-like GLP-1 drugs face an 11 times higher risk of vomiting or inhaling stomach contents into their lungs under anesthesia, as the medication delays stom
Exercise rivals common pain meds. Researchers found that exercise can significantly reduce acute and chronic pain across a wide range of conditions including musculoskeletal, neurological, inflammator
TIL in Norway everyone's income, net wealth and tax paid are published online and anyone can search them. But you have to log in, the person you look up can see your name in their search history withi
TIL all five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were tragically killed in action on November 13, 1942 while serving aboard USS Juneau (CL-52), marking the biggest blow to any one family in U.S. wa
TIL Elizabeth Holmes led investors to believe Theranos's blood-testing technology had been deployed by the U.S. military on the battlefield. It had never actually been deployed there.
TIL when Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen went to the Kamestastin crater in eastern Canada for lunar geology training, he met with the Innu Nation indigenous to the area who gifted him their flag. He
TIL that in 1724 Peter the Great had Willem Mons — his wife Catherine's chamberlain and rumored lover — beheaded for corruption, then had his head preserved in alcohol for his Kunstkamera cabinet of c
TIL Jeff Bezos deliberately chose a house with a garage when starting Amazon because he wanted the “garage-startup legitimacy” of companies like Apple and HP.
TIL that Harry S. Truman is that the “S” was not short for a name. His parents chose it to honor both grandfathers—Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young—so his full middle name was simply S.
TIL about former Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, who cold case investigators recently tied to the 1979 hit on a witness helping the FBI investigate his "pardon selling" scandal—a scandal so severe his
TIL that between 27 BC and 476 AD — over 500 hundred years of history— Roman Emperors died at far higher rates than their Chinese counterparts in the Han Dynasty. Of the ninety-seven emperors who rule
TIL the Yugoslav President Josef Broz Tito followed the custom of Serbian kings and visited parents whenever they had a ninth child, congratulated them and gave them money. He also served as godfather
TIL that Archie Karas was a gambler who received a $10,000 loan in 1992, then turned it into $40 million in 1995 by gambling, only to lose it all later that year.
TIL black holes have a theoretical maximum size of 50 billion solar masses, because if it gets too big, the stuff in the accretion disc starts coalescing into stars rather than falling past the event
The assumption that men’s interest in sex is purely physical and always switched on is a common stereotype, but recent evidence indicates that men’s sexual desire is actually quite complex. When men f
TIL The Sultana, a steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River in 1865, was the worst maritime disaster in US history. The Mississippi River has changed course several times since the d
TIL that the Catholic Church officially censored the heliocentric theory (Earth orbiting the Sun) for over 200 years, but never placed Darwin's Theory of Evolution (The Origin of Species) on its list
