TIL an estimated 1 in 60 adults in Fiji is now living with HIV, up from about 1 in 167 five years ago, and the government has now declared it a national emergency.
TIL that in Whittier, Alaska, nearly all of its roughly 270 residents live in a single 14-story building, "Begich Towers", which also houses the post office, grocery store, school, and church. The tow
TIL that British 1st Dragoon Guards cavalry unit still wears coat of arms of Holy Roman Emperor as their regimental badge because Emperor Franz Joseph was their Colonel-in-chief
TIL that Today’s Health Magazine publisher J.I. Rodale was on the Dick Cavett show. He told Cavett that he never felt better and that he decided to live to be one hundred. When Cavett was talking to h
TIL that the origin stories of characters such as Iron Man or the Punisher, which were previously tied to the Vietnam War, have now been retconned to take place during the Siancong War, a fictional co
TIL in 1849, Henry Wirz, a convicted Swiss fraudster, fled to the US, where he became a quack doctor and slave plantation overseer. He joined the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and ran the cruel A
TIL that scientists reintroduced the Whooping Crane to an extinct migration route by guiding them through the air with an ultralight airplane they imprinted on. The pilot had to wear a crane costume t
TIL that for Terminator 2, stunt pilot Chuck Tamburro flew a real helicopter under an overpass at 60 knots with about 5 ft of clearance above and 4 ft on each side; when camera operators refused to fi
TIL that Lennox Lewis, Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano and Vitali Klitschko are the four heavyweight boxing champions to have retired as champion. Of these four Lewis and Marciano are the two to hold a wi
TIL the oldest known share certificate in the world, dated 1288, gave the Bishop of Västerås a 1/8th stake in a Swedish copper mine — whose successor company, Stora Enso, is still listed on the stock
TIL that Phryne, a wealthy 4th-century BC Greek courtesan, was tried for impiety in Athens. According to later accounts, she revealed her body before the jury, while her lawyer Hypereides argued that
TIL that Joe Weider got Arnold Schwarzenegger his first movie role by passing him off as a German Shakespearean actor, even though Arnold barely spoke English.
