TIL about the "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

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TIL pilot can roll down their window

TIL 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., behind infamous English dubs of shows such as One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon, traded on the New York Stock Exchange as 'KDE'

TIL: Internet Archive also offer a Research Paper archive called Internet Archive Scholar, and offer access to tens of millions of papers, for free

TIL about enhanced weathering

TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethereal patterns not visible to the human eye.

TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.

TIL 36 states require voters to present identification to vote at the polls on Election Day

TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.

TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted

TIL about Brougham

TIL Mattel made a Barbie and Ken music album.

TIL vending machines were invented in the 1st century AD, and accepted coins in exchange for wine or holy water

TIL the largest national park in the European Union is in South America

Shipworms can sink a boat. Northeastern researchers explain digestive process

TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle disease was real.

TIL the word "crap" predated the inventions of Thomas Crapper by many years. His name was a happy coincidence.

TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.

TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.

TIL it's easy to create a National Day. Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day.

TIL tigers don't have slit pupils like housecats

TIL Amy Lee, Evanescence lead sincer, is the Great-Great Neice of Robert E. Lee

TIL the fascist Uštase had a children's concentration camp

TIL about the arc lamp

TIL the word shrapnel came from Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel, a British officer who invented a shell that scattered pieces of itself.

TIL the inventor of the Rubik's cube took a month to solve it the first time.

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TIL Gene Shalit is still alive and is 100 years old

TIL mosquitos can bleed animals to death if there are enough of them.

TIL that an Argentina Court issued an international arrest warrant against an Iranian for blowing up a synagogue. Iran told Argentina they will never give him up. Then they appointed him to Government

TIL that in Taiwan in 1989, there was a movement called "Snails Without Shells" where nearly 50,000 people slept on the road of Taipei’s East District to protest the escalating housing crisis

TIL there's a marathon run at 1210 meters below sea level.

TIL that the original meme "feeling cute, might delete later" was of Squidward.

TIL how to get my first Android App running on my phone

TIL the color "chartreuse" is named after a liqueur

TIL mondegreen is the mishearing of the words in a song.

TIL One of the two brothers who founded the Guinness Book of World Records was assassinated by the IRA

TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries

TIL about the Murder of Ashley Zhao, a 5 year old girl who was beaten to death by her mother, and then the mother hid the body in the family restaurant with help from Ashley's father.

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TIL about the 1879 Mandalay Palace massacre, in which over forty royals were executed by co-conspirators to secure King Thibaw’s claim to the throne.