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TIL It’s easy to implant entirely false memories in the mind of a witness. As proof, when it was suggested to subjects that they’d met Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, some accepted it as their own memory, even though Bugs is a Warner Brothers character & wouldn’t have ever been there

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TIL of the Republic of Pirates, a Caribbean state that lasted for 12 years under the governance of a pirate code.

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TIL about the Ritchie Boys, largely made of a group of German-born Jews who fled their homeland, came to America, and then joined the U.S. Army to use their knowledge of the German language and culture to return to Europe and fight Naziism.

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TIL In ancient Rome, masters discouraged slaves from running away by putting a tattoo reading "Stop me! I am a runaway!" on their foreheads.At a temple of the Greek god of healing, thousands of tablets from escaped slaves asking the god to make the tattoos on their forehead disappear have been found

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Today I learned that Marilyn Monroe had an older sister, Berniece Baker Miracle, who is still alive at 104. They looked very alike.

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TIL The US Government lost 12 Billion dollars in cash shipped directly to Iraq.

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TIL that when the ancient Marquesan people, who became Hawaiians, first sailed to Hawaii, they brought pigs, dogs, and chickens to eat. These fat, slow dogs that mainly ate fermented Taro root were called Poi dogs and were eaten and sometimes sacrificed and placed in ritual graves with children.

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TIL Antarctica has two cultural holidays. One of which, Midwinter Day, is celebrated in June by having a dinner including lobster and ribeye steaks. Some stations also watch films about being trapped in snow, Like The Shining or The Thing.

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TIL Francisco Goya's Black Paintings were originally painted on the walls in his house and were never meant to be seen by the public. After Goya's death Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger had the art put on canvas and donated them to the state in 1881.

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TIL Voyager 1 and 2 both travel at 35,000mph, and are about 900,000 miles further away from Earth each day. They are now more than 10 billion miles away since launch in 1977.

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TIL that in parts of India, when a Tiger kills someone in the forest a red cloth is tied to a tree to mark the spot where they are killed and to show where a tiger has been hunting.

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TIL that Worcestershire sauce was created John Lea and William Perrins. The name Worcestershire sauce has been considered a generic term since 1876, when the English High Court of Justice ruled that Lea & Perrins did not own a trademark for the name Worcestershire.

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TIL after her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't; he died two months later.

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TIL that Susan Alfond, Maine’s richest person, made her fortune by selling Warren Buffett a shoe company. Buffett would go on to call this purchase the most disastrous investment of his career and the business ultimately failed.

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TIL the Culinary Institute of America was founded by two women, Frances L. Roth and Katherine Angell, in 1946. They created the school to compensate for the shortage of European chefs coming to the US due to WWII. Their goal was to train a new generation of American chefs to fill these roles.

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TIL there was a group of notable French artists where they gathered and smoked cannabis. Members of "Club des Hashischins" included Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, and Eugene Delacroix.

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TIL in 2008, a mass riot occurred in Democratic Republic of the Congo after a football goalkeeper was accused of using "witchcraft" to win the game. After the police showed up, 13 people died in a stampede.

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TIL: “non-dairy” products (such as CoffeeMate creamer) can still contain milk and dairy derivatives. “Non-dairy” is not defined by the FDA. However “diary free” is & products with this labeling do not contain dairy.

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TIL the U.S. has a region nicknamed "Cancer Alley" where 150+ petrochemical plants operate. Cancer rates there are 53.33% higher than the national average.

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TIL that the International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from competing from Tokyo 1964 to Barcelona 1992 due to the South African government’s policy of apartheid.

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TIL that the late actor Robert Forster, perhaps best known from "Jackie Brown" and "Breaking Bad," was a member of the "Triple Nine Society," which is reserved for people whose IQ is in at least the 99.9th percentile (which equates to a score of 146 or above on the widely-used Wechsler tests).

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TIL of the killer whales of Eden, Australia. In the 1800s they would cooperate with human whalers to hunt larger whales. Both parties would share the carcass.

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TIL of the ‘Window Tax’, where people were taxed based on the number of windows they had on their houses. This was used in the 18th century as a simple method to calculate tax obligations. However, many people bricked up their windows, leading to health problems.

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TIL although Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, the 2011 Prize in Physiology and Medicine for Ralph M. Steinman still stands because the committee was unaware he had died three days before the announcement.

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TIL in 1989 a Thai worker stole 91kg of rare jewelry and valuable gems from a Saudi prince in Saudi Arabia. He fled the country and most of the valuables were never found. Four Saudi men who travelled to Thailand to investigate were killed. The countries have had no diplomatic ties since then.

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TIL in Italy, Donald Duck has had for 50 years a superpowered alter-ego who started off with grappling hooks and is now an intergalactic warrior with a rocket-shield-glove that houses the digital consciousness of his mentor.

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TIL that bananas naturally produce anti-matter. Roughly every 75 minutes one positron is produced by the trace amounts of Potassium-40 that is naturally occurring in bananas.

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TIL that Bill Cosby was instrumental in ending the practice of "painting down," in which instead of using black stuntmen for black actors, white stuntmen performed in blackface. Cosby refused to have "painted down" stunt doubles for his "I Spy" role and only worked with stunt performer Calvin Brown.

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TIL a meteor had fallen in the kingdom of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and on it someone had written "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided." When he heard this, he sent someone to investigate who did it, and when no one admitted, all the people living nearby the meteor were killed.

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TIL that less than 2 months after the documentary "Super Size Me" was released, McDonalds announced that it would stop selling any "Super Size" meals. McDonalds spokesman Walt Riker claimed that the move had “nothing to do with that (film) whatsoever.”

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TIL in 2012 a librarian at Humes High School in Tupelo Mississippi discovered a library card in the back of an old book signed in 1948 by a then 13 year old Elvis Presley. It is the oldest known autograph by Elvis.

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TIL of Chimney sweeps' carcinoma, a skin cancer of the scrotum, caused because chimney sweep boys would climb up narrow chimneys naked. It was the first disease linked to occupational exposure.

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TIL Twenty One Pilots is the only act in history to have two entire albums worth of songs certified Gold or Platinum. No other artist has ever achieved this.

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TIL McDonald’s ended its 40yr relationship with Heinz when a Burger King executive was named the ketchup maker’s CEO.

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TIL In 2019 a man robbed a bank, threw the money out onto the street, and shouted "Merry Christmas!" He then went to a Starbucks where he waited to be arrested.

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TIL that English actor Gary Oldman hired a dialect coach to regain his English accent because he lost it from living in California for too long.

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TIL that in 2002 Pamela Anderson contracted Hepatitis C by sharing tattoo needles with Tommy Lee and was told she would only have 10 years left to live. She was cured of the disease in 2015.

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TIL Lafayette, from the American and French Revolution, was born Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Montier de La Fayette. He joked, "It's not my fault. I was baptized like a Spaniard, with the name of every conceivable saint who might offer me protection in battle."

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TIL that two-star orbiting planets like Star Wars' Tatooine were by wide consensus considered impossible, and the first such planet was only confirmed as recently as 2011

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TIL In 2017, scientists began a global search to find a mate for Jeremy, a rare left-coiled snail. Since his shell coiled in the opposite direction of most snails, his organs couldn't align with others. Two contenders were found, but they mated with each other instead of Jeremy.

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TIL that James Lilja, the first drummer for the band The Offspring, left the band to go to medical school. He became an obstetrician and gynecologist (later a gynecologic oncologist).

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TIL Operation Alaska, Finalaska or New Finland was a proposed plan to evacuate entire Finnish population (3.8 million) to Alaska during the WW2

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TIL that since 1953, every King of Saudi Arabia has been a son of the first king, Abdulaziz. His oldest son was born in 1900 and the youngest in 1952. He has roughly 1,000 grandchildren.

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TIL Quaker Oats and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid a $1.85 million settlement to over 100 people who were unwittingly fed radioactive oatmeal as part of a secret experiment.

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TIL that Benkos Bioho, an African king that was captured and taken to South America, helped create a way to use braids to convey maps and messages. This stopped his captors from finding out his and his peers' plans. Some braids represented escape and certain roads while others held gold and seeds.

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TIL one of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober.

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TIL that when Dune (1984) was originally released in theaters, some locations gave out “cheat sheets” for people confused with the terminology of the Dune universe.

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TIL that approximately 25% of the United States' nuclear arsenal is protected by dolphins, and has been so since 2010

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TIL There are actually 25 languages spoken among the population of 17.26 million in Guatemala. According to the Language Law of 2003, these 25 languages are recognized as officials. As a first and second language, Spanish is spoken by 93% of the population.

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TIL that a Browning M2 50 caliber machine gun (AKA "Ma Deuce") was in active US Army service for 87 years. It was only discovered to be that old due to it having been sent to be upgraded to a new spec.

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