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
TIL that the first person ever to use an ATM cash machine was British actor Reg Varney, who was photographed making the first ever withdrawal on 27th June 1967, at Enfield in London.
TIL that the train crash at the start of The Fugitive was filmed for real in a single take and cost about $1M. The filmmakers spent ten weeks planning the 60-second sequence, knowing they would only g
TIL Seth MacFarlane, creator and voice of “Family Guy,” inherited part of Frank Sinatra’s music archive from Sinatra’s daughter Tina after Frank Sinatra Jr.’s death in 2016. The collection contains ro
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.
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.
Screening newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus, the leading nongenetic cause of childhood hearing loss, raised detection 2.5-fold across a 50,438-birth hospital system; 34 infected infants found am
TIL that the sculpture "L'Homme au doigt" was auctioned for $141.3 million, making it twice as expensive as the most expensive auctioned jewel (the Pink Star diamond), and almost the exact same price
TIL Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write the song "The Wind Cries Mary" as an apology after having a heated argument with his girlfriend Kathy Mary Etchingham over a plate of lumpy mashed potatoes.
An unhealthy Western-style diet was associated with a faster cognitive decline in people with a genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study on 185 older adults followed for more than 7 y
TIL a Babylonian clay tablet called Plimpton 322, made around 1800 BC, lists number patterns matching Pythagorean triples, over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born
