TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs needed to hit a place rich in sulfur and hydrocarbons to create enough soot to cause mass extinction

TIL that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing that Counter-Strike developers had to shut their doors to block out the speakers

TIL that a Penguin has a military Rank within the Norwegian Military, the rank Major-General. The Penguin also lives in Edinburgh Zoo, in Scotland.

TIL in 1984 a gunman named Denis Lortie attacked the Quebec parliament and was talked into surrendering by the unarmed Sergeant-at-arms, René Jalbert, who spoke directly with Lortie until he was convi