grQlb TIL of Yossele the Holy Miser, a 17th century Jew in Kraków reviled for his stinginess and refusal to give charity. After his death, aid to the poor stopped, revealing he had secretly supported them. Once buried with paupers, his tombstone was later marked “HaTzadik” meaning “the Righteous One.”
LQ7dP TIL Dermot Mulroney, alongside being an actor, is a cellist who performed on the musical scores for Jurassic World (2015), Rogue One (2016), and Spider-Man: Homecoming
b6QXQ TIL Kurt Cobain took offense to Gun N' Roses song 'One in a Million'. The song led to GNR being dropped from an AIDS benefit show in New York. While Axel Rose says it was about personal experience, not about racism or homophobia. Axel went on to perform with Elton John for Aids Awareness in 1992.
QNoGe TIL that archaeologists in England dug up a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg — and when three of them accidentally cracked, they released the world’s oldest rotten-egg smell.
ANVPd TIL in 1955, computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to attract funding for a project that would go on to launch the field of AI.
yVxlM TIL See You Next Tuesday is a euphemism meant to disguise spelling out the letters of a disparaging term towards women
m1MnR TIL that "masking" in autism requires so much mental energy that many autistic people experience burnout from constantly suppressing their natural behaviors to appear neurotypical
DQ8NV TIL that the Burj Khalifa is so tall that compared to everybody else, those living above the 80th floor must wait 2 extra minutes to break their Ramadan fasts, and those living above the 150th floor must wait 3 extra minutes due to people living on higher floors being able to see the sun for longer.
vPQeL TIL of Chlorine Trifluoride which is a chemical that can burn sand. It is hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water.
J15Ql TIL that King Charles I of England, Scotland & Ireland is considered a martyr by High Church Anglicans for his refusal to cede his sovereignty over the Church of England to Parliament—which his apologists argue sealed his fate of being executed at his trial
pYQRA TIL that Rumford’s Soup, invented around 1800 by Benjamin Thompson, was an early scientific effort to create cheap, nutritious food. Made from barley, peas, potatoes, and sour beer, it fed the poor, prisoners, and was a common military ration in Central Europe for much of the 19th and 20th centuries
GArZJ TIL sharks have an "off-switch" — if you gently flip them upside down, they go into a trance-like state called tonic immobility.