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janeiro 01, 2021
TIL in 2010 when the University of Mississippi began the process to find a new mascot, a group of students started a campaign to have Admiral Ackbar selected. Some students threatened to transfer, and some prospective parents said they would not let their children attend if he was chosen.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL that the "For Dummies" book series started with "DOS for Dummies" in 1991. The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for dummies like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million books in print
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Carl Douglas quickly recorded the number #1 hit, "Kung Fu Fighting", during the last 10 minutes of a studio session in 1974. The song was originally meant to be a B-side track, but went on to sell more than 11 million copies.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL When the world's largest diamond was to be transported from Africa to England, a detailed and safe route by sea was pubalicized - as a decoy. The actual diamond was simply posted by mail.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL: You can get rabies from inhalation of aerosolized rabies virus. It has been documented in spelunkers exploring caves inhabited by infected bats or by laboratory technicians homogenizing tissues infected with rabies virus.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL that Finland teaches critical thinking and media literacy in K-12 classes as part of a nation-wide anti-disinformation campaign
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Calcium deficiency can contribute to mood problems such as irritability, anxiety, depression, and difficulty sleeping.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL: Movile Cave is an ancient cave that had been sealed off for over 5.5 million years in Romania. It contains an endemic ecosystem based completely on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. To date over 69 unique species of flora and fauna have been discovered.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL There are close to 15,000 farms growing Christmas Trees in the U.S., and over 100,000 people are employed full or part-time in the industry.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number.
janeiro 01, 2021
TIL Tom Hanks sustained a leg wound while making Castaway. He failed to treat it, and it became infected. Two weeks later, he went to see a doctor to get it checked. The doctor told him that the condition of the infection had gotten so dire that he was about an hour away from fatal blood poisoning.
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