A huge herd of deer was captured thundering across a path in Southeast England creating an incredible wildlife moment that looks straight out of a nature documentary.
TIL that from 1988 to 1991, Nintendo offered, among other things, weather forecasts, live stock trading, game cheat codes, and the ability to bet on horse races through the Family Computer Network Sys
TIL a researcher found a 1,700-year-old fragment of Homer’s Odyssey hidden in a Dutch university library, where it had been mistaken for an unremarkable 7th-century manuscript for decades.
TIL Bermuda shorts are considered appropriate business attire for men in Bermuda, when made of suit-like material and worn with knee-length socks, a dress shirt, tie, and blazer
TIL Germany charges a 25 cent deposit on every single-use drink bottle and can, and gets 98% of them back, the highest return rate of any deposit scheme in the world
Previously unidentified man killed by self-inflicted cyanide poisoning has been identified as Dr. Mathew Betkouski and is now a suspect in the 1982 cyanide poisoning homicides.
TIL Elizabeth Holmes’ boyfriend founded a blood-testing startup in 2024 with eerily similar claims to Theranos. Holmes reportedly advises him from prison
Silverback Gorilla Icumbi and his brother Turakomeje, two of the largest Silverbacks in the Virunga Mountains, have one of the tightest bonds between adult male Gorillas ever observed. Their relations
TIL the dog Cheeseface from the famous National Lampoon cover “If you don’t buy this magazine we’ll shoot this dog” was shot and killed by a hunter. Whether it was intentional is unknown.
TIL Lee Sklar, one of the most prolific session bassists ever, has played on more than 2,000 albums, including records by James Taylor, BB King, Willie Nelson , Phil Collins, Ray Charles, Dolly Parton
TIL Valujet was a low cost airline that was so famous for its cost cutting and safety issues that the DoD denied its bid to fly military personnel. It merged with (and renamed itself after) smaller Ai
TIL about Khun Sa, a powerful Burmese drug lord, who was the main heroin producer 1976-1996 and had an army of up to 30k men. In 1988 he offered to sell his entire stock of heroin to Australian govern
