TIL Cabin in the Woods (2011) was meant to have a tie-in with the Valve video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), serving as an additional DLC level for the game. The collaboration fell through due to MGM's fi
TIL California school districts and local governments have lost about $1 trillion in revenue since Prop 13 passed in 1978, preventing property taxes from rising with real estate values—over $25,000 pe
TIL Audrey Hepburn secretly delivered messages for the Dutch Resistance as a teenager during WWII and reportedly helped raise money for the resistance through underground performances.
A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases.
TIL a man who ate between 6-9 pounds of cheese, sticks of butter, and hamburgers a day for about 8 months developed xanthelasma and raised yellow lesions caused by cholesterol appeared on his eyelids.
TIL prion disease, which is 100% fatal and has no cure, can survive in soil for years, spread to growing plants or wildlife, and can be reliably destroyed through sustained heat of at least 900°F for
TIL mathematician Leonhard Euler's right eye started going blind in 1738, and his left eye went blind as well in 1766. His blindness did not seem to have a major impact on his productivity, and in 177
TIL about The Battle of Evarts, a gunfight between striking coal miners and anti-union gunmen in 1931 during the Harlan County Coal Wars in southeastern Kentucky, which left four dead. The coal wars i
TIL that according to scientists, forgotten memories aren't generally lost forever from your brain. Instead, they are simply made inaccessible to you, and so can be returned with the right stimuli.
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.
