TIL America's deadliest sporting event was a Cal-Stanford football game. Dozens fell onto or into a furnace of molten glass. 23 people died and more than 100 were injured.
TIL that Leonhard Euler was so insanely prolific that after his death in 1783, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences had such a massive backlog of his unpublished papers that it took them nearly 50
TIL in 1957, the Blue Hawaii cocktail was created when a representative of the Dutch distiller Bols asked a bartender, Harry Yee to develop a drink using its blue curaçao liqueur.
TIL Pope Pius II(1405–1464) was a prolific writer, known for being the only sitting Pope to author a memoir before Pope Francis in 2025. Besides that, he wrote several comedies as well as erotic poetr
TIL that our cells contain mitochondria which evolved from bacteria billions of years ago. Mitochondria still make bacterial-like proteins which sometimes fool our immune cells to overreact and cause
TIL that Timothy McVeigh, the OKC bomber, ate two Taco Bell tacos after finding out he had been sentenced to death on his way to prison. He scratched off a promo ticket on the side and found out he wo
TIL that in 1833 a Boston ship owned by "Ice King" Frederic Tudor carried pond ice ~16,000 miles to Calcutta; ~80 tons melted but 100 arrived and sold for a fortune.
TIL on July 31, 1976, the night before Colorado’s 100th anniversary, thousands of people celebrating in Big Thompson Canyon had no warning before a 30-foot wall of water swept through the narrow gorge
TIL The Bayeux Tapestry is believed to have a section missing. A reconstruction of what the missing piece likely showed, the coronation of William as King, was made in 2013.
TIL that inside New Zealand’s Waitomo Cave, thousands of endemic glowworms cover the walls with pinpricks of light, giving the effect of an underground starry night.
TIL the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland killed over half the country's livestock and at least one-fifth of its people, then lowered global temperatures enough to cause crop failures across Europe.
Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Notably Higher Prostate Cancer Risks. Men with higher levels of UPF intake had 24% to 34% greater risks, compared with those with lower intakes. These analyses were adj
Protein sequences aren't fully determined by DNA, study finds — across more than 1,000 human samples, Northeastern researchers identified thousands of stable, abundant proteins whose sequences aren't
