TIL that the difference between a ~3% mortgage rate and a ~7% rate means that, for every $5 borrowed, you pay roughly another $5 in interest over 30 years.In other words, a 4 percentage point higher r
TIL the property tax in 18th and 19th century USA didn't just tax land and buildings, but included every property owned by someone such as watches, livestock, horses and cash on hand, essentially func
One Lifelong Exercise Habit Is Linked to Healthier Signs of Aging After 55: Healthy adults over 55 who had exercised regularly for 30 years had higher vitality capacity than inactive peers. Their aver
TIL One of the first ever halftime shows in NFL history was when player, Long Time Sleep, wrestled a bear at half time of an Oorang Indians game to promote show dogs in 1922.
TIL that Charles Lightoller, a Titanic survivor, took his 58-foot yacht to Dunkirk in 1940 and rescued 130 men during the desperate evacuation back to England.
A new study estimates based on donor-derived rabies transmission events that China and the US diagnosed rabies in only 28.7% and 6.1% of rabies decedents, respectively, during the study years.
TIL that in 1992, gasoline leaked from a Pemex pipeline into Guadalajara’s sewer system for at least two days before exploding, killing more than 200 people, ripping up five miles of city streets and
Acute stress impaired associative memory, while baseline cortisol moderated the relationship between cortisol reactivity and false recognition across two experiments involving 119 participants
TIL that the odds of a Canadian NHL franchise not winning the Stanley Cup from 1993 to 2026 are roughly 1 in 2500, or 0.04%. Actuarial organizations use this as an example that "highly unlikely" is no
TIL that in France, they passed the "Right to Disconnect law" back in 2017. Making it illegal for companies with over 50 employees to penalize their workers for ignoring work emails/ messages after wo
TIL that during the selection process for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the U.S. Air Force required candidates to be married. The Air Force believed that having a family provided a psychological safeg
A study found that children with congenital TORCH infections were three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism and seven times more likely to be diagnosed with an intellectual disability. It al
TIL there’s a Philadelphia Eagles bar in Tokyo, near Tokyo Station. Cheesesteaks are on the menu and they show Eagles games live no matter when they’re on.
TIL: during much of the 18th century most surrendered armies would just be paroled back to their home countries with a promise to not fight again rather than kept in PoW camps
TIL a Mongol advisor talked the Khan out of killing all of northern China's peasants by calculating they'd pay 500,000 coins of silver a year in taxes if left alive.
TIL that for Con Air, filmmakers used a real, gutted C-123K and sent it crashing into the actual Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, with 14 cameras filming the stunt.
TIL that Lose/Lose is a 2009 video game made as an art project that erases a random file from your computer for each enemy you beat and can therefore brick it by design if you're not lucky. A reviewer
TIL:That Tupac Shakur was a member of the Baltimore Young Communist League and dated the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the Communist Party USA.
