R5Wo9 TIL that Nigerian scammers use the codeword "alaye" in messaging to determine if they're talking to another scammer
W7X1d TIL The first US cross country road trip was by Jacob Murdock in 1908 it took 32 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.
x6787 TIL that it took Boeing less than 3 years from starting the 747 project to first flight. The first commercial flight occurred 11 months later.
VBOQQ TIL the first mass-produced bicycle for women was called the Ladies’ Psycho
epyPk TIL “OK” was invented for the lolz
4kmBo TIL We have McNuggets thanks to a hedge fund manager who taught McDonalds to use futures
nWy9B TIL that Eratosthenes, the man who calculated the circumference of the Earth, also calculated various dates of the Trojan war.
9w5W7 TIL there is a piece of moon rock in a space-themed stained glass window in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
X0VZ6 TIL Elvis dreamed about building a guest house at Graceland as far back as 1960 but it was never built. The 450 room Guest House at Graceland finally opened in 2016, just steps from Presley's former home. The hotel employs 450 people and is the first in a working middle class Memphis neighborhood
OG4Z6 TIL about the Krukenberg operation, is a surgical technique that converts a forearm stump into a pincer. It was first described in 1917 by the German army surgeon Hermann Krukenberg. It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to p
R5Wol TIL that Project Gutenberg Australia has no formal relationship with Project Gutenberg, and contains many works not available in the latter due to difference between Australian and American copyright laws.
W7X19 TIL that King Henry VIII disliked ponies. In the Breed of Horses Act of 1540, he ordered that any stallions shorter than 15 hands high, mares shorter than 13 hands high, and 2-year-old colts under 11.2 hands high were to be killed. Private owners were also forced to kill all of their shorter ponies.