TIL about GG Alin, an American extravagant musician. His live performances often included onstage defecation, fighting with audience, self-harm and nudity. He recorded 12 albums and was invited to som
TIL that Hollywood producer Don Simpson attempted to overcome his drug problem with the aid of doctor Stephen Ammerman, who prescribed various drugs to help with withdrawal from the ones Simpson was t
TIL that in Italy, Friday the 17th is a day of misfortune and airlines omit row 17, because in Roman numerals XVII is an anagram of vixi, meaning I am dead.
TIL that a wooden hunting bow found in a lake in Alaska was radiocarbon dated to approximately 460 years old, despite having been exposed to the elements for an unknown amount of time
TIL a hoard of 2,584 silver coins buried during the 1066 Norman Conquest was found in England. Value at $5.6 million, it has become the highest-value treasure find in English history.
TIL that there are so few Imax 70mm screens because many of the parts needed to build them no longer exist, along with the plans being lost. Between Oppenheimer and the Odyssey, Imax attempted to repa
TIL the researchers who coined the "backfire effect" in 2010 later championed a study that failed to find it. Across 8,100 subjects and 36 issues, corrections backfired on exactly one. The rest of the
TIL Toby Fox considered pitching to Shigesato Itoi that he could help him make a fourth game in the Mother franchise. He changed his mind after Itoi encouraged Fox to make a sequel to Undertale.
TIL the Nazi Wilhelm Kube was assassinated in his Minsk bedroom by his housemaid, Yelena Mazanik, who hid a bomb under his mattress. Mazanik and two co-conspirators were awarded the title “Hero of the
TIL the Ancient Romans had a Spring festival honoring their fertility goddess, Flora, featuring nude dancers, circus performers, and prostitutes parading throughout the streets.
TIL that the Green River Formation in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah has estimated oil shale reserves of 3 Trillion barrels. It is the largest oil shale deposit in the world. The oil is difficult to reco
TIL of A.K. Mozumdar, the first South Asian American who was granted citizenship, who obtained his citizenship by arguing as a “high Caste Hindu” he had pure “Aryan” blood and that those racial origin
TIL when Kesha lost her case vs Dr Luke and had to keep making albums under his label, Sony refused to promote her and she could only play small theaters. Macklemore invited her on a joint tour where
TIL in 2009 Australian scientists discovered that a specie of octopus collects discarded coconut shell halves, carries them across the seafloor by "stilt-walking", then assembles them into a shelter w
TIL machine guns on old war plane were synchronized to the engine with timing gears so they can shoot through the propellers without hitting the blades
TIL playwright/composer Meredith Willson earned more from the Beatles' cover of one of his songs than he did for the hit Broadway musical it came from.
TIL that in 1959, a British expedition took a 5,700-pound elephant across the Alps to test whether Hannibal’s legendary crossing with elephants was actually possible. It was.
TIL a famous book collector stole pages from rare books in the British Museum to complete his own copies, and librarians later proved it by matching wormholes, folds, and impressions on the stolen pag
TIL Steven Van Zandt co-wrote Sun City, a song protesting apartheid in South Africa. More than 40 artists participated in its recording, including Bono, Run-DMC, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Miles Davi
TIL that although Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson and his trainer Cus D’Amato wanted to pursue the boxing world heavyweight championship as early as 1954, they waited two years until the undefea
TIL in 2020 rumours circulated in France of horses and donkeys being killed and mutilated, with around 30 animals were reported mutilated. Journalistic investigations showed that it was "a collective
