"TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon."
"TIL that in 2005, a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia nominated a fire hydrant to run for the Board of Governors (and even acted as its “translator”). The hydrant pulled in 900 votes, missing a seat by six ballots."
"TIL the meerkat is the world’s most murderous mammal with 20% of all meerkats being violently killed by another meerkat, most commonly their mother, sister, or aunt."
"TIL at least one of the victims of the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 C.E was found with a vitrified brain. In other words their brain was turned to glass due to the extreme heat."
"TIL that when Will Smith was 12 his grandmother found his notebook of rap lyrics with curse words and wrote a note in it telling Will that truly smart people do not have to curse when expressing themselves. As a result he resolved not to use profanity in his music."
"TIL Carrie Fisher’s ashes were placed inside a giant Prozac Pill."
"TIL that the place Julius Caesar was murdered, “Torre Argentina,” is now a cat sanctuary."
"TIL that the Soviet space probe Phobos-2, , designed to explore Mars’ moons, failed because 2 of its 3 computers died, and since it used a system where the computers voted on any decision, the 1 healthy computer was unable to outvote 2 dead computers."
"TIL Crows and other bird species will coat themselves in ants. Researchers aren’t sure why birds do this, but have called the process “anting”."
"Til Americans have accumulated $21 billion Worth of unused gift cards. Almost 2/3 of people have a card and half of those will likely lose the gift card before using it."
"TIL that Edward Teller, the physicist who advocated for Oppenheimer to lose his security clearance suggested using nukes to create artificial harbors, fracking oil and preventing hurricanes."
"TIL Song titles can’t be copyrighted. You can legally title a song “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Stairway to Heaven”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or any other already used song title."
"TIL toilet paper wasn’t “splinter free” until the 1930’s."
"TIL Charles Manson hypnotized Danny Trejo when they were in jail together."
"TIL That the Pink Panther cartoon show was created due to the success of the character in the opening credits of the Pink Panther films."
"TIL the humming noise produced by electricity is a different tone in Europe than it is in the US. The American electrical hum is a B-flat whereas the European electrical hum is a G."
"TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying pan, was burned in a gunpowder blast, and fell into a river. He grew up to invent the saxophone."
"TIL Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother born in 1991."
"TIL due to efficient recycling processes, 75% of all aluminum produced world wide is still in use today."
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