TIL that in 1674, English physician Thomas Willis documented testing for diabetes by tasting patients’ urine, noting that diabetic urine could taste “wonderfully sweet” like honey or sugar

TIL that the oldest sitting Senator and third in line for the Presidency Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was born on September 17, 1933, making him older than the chocolate chip cookie, radar, the ballpoint p

TIL that New Zealand has a no-fault accident compensation system that covers visitors from overseas. If you're injured in an accident while visiting, ACC can cover you even if nobody else was at fault

TIL that like photons and electrons, there is a quantum equivalent for sound waves called a phonon.