TIL because of her mental illness history & how she presented early on, a woman catatonic for 20 yrs wasn't tested for an autoimmune disease until a doctor who was there when she was first admitted in 2000, came across her again in 2020. This led to h
TIL that John A Phillips, in 1976, when he was a student at Princeton, made an essay about a model of a nuclear bomb he designed. This bomb would cost only 2000$ to build, so the fbi confiscated his essay. He was the only One of the class Who managed to g
TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people.
TIL that in 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by throwing it in the river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it.
TIL that Eddie Van Halen's first day at a segregated school in the US was "absolutely frightening" since he emigrated from the Netherlands and spoke no English. Thus, he was considered a 'minority' and the White kids bullied him. His first friends in Amer
TIL “Goodbye” comes from the 16th century word “Godbwy,” a acronym of the phrase, “God be with ye.”
TIL about "Don't be a Sucker", a 23 minute anti-fascist, anti-racist film produced in 1943 by the US War Department to teach the public about the evils of prejudice and discrimination.
TIL In 1988 the Ministry of Defense of USSR released an extremely graphic educational video on radiation sickness that show the devastating consequences of the Chernobyl incident on human bodies
TIL that British actress Emilia Clarke has survived two brain aneurysms and founded a charity called SameYou which helps provide treatment to people recovering from a brain injury or stroke
TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant
TIL of the Chain Test. For an arch to stand, it must fit into the mirrored shape generated by a chain.
TIL of the 2016 case of State of Georgia vs Denver Fenton Allen where a routine pre-trial hearing turned into a wild and graphic shouting match between the Judge and the defendant. The creators of Rick and Morty animated the incident using the transcript
