9wXd7 TIL that Richard Bayley, a surgeon working in the New York Hospital, had his laboratory and cadavers destroyed in the 1788 Doctor's Riot after accusations of graverobbing for anatomical specimens. Upon his death Richard Bayley chose to be buried.
nWMrB TIL that Benjamim Franklin used to submit essays to the local newspaper using a false persona of a middle-aged widow named “Silence Dogood”, because his previous attempts to publish writings under his own name were rejected.
4kWOo TIL American soul singer Donny Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and prescribed with 14 different medications. He believed that white people were trying to kill him and connect his brain to a machine to steal his voice/music. In 1979, he committed suicide by jumping from a balcony
x6nv7 TIL of the Bobby Soxers. A term used to describe the subculture of Young women in the 1940’s. They were one of the first groups of young women that advertisers directly marketed too. They wore loose fitting socks and were fans of Frank Sinatra and similar newer popular artist/fads of the day.
5VRXP TIL that the Palmer House is the third hotel with that name. The first lasted a year before it burned down in the great Chicago Fire. The second started construction only 13 days before the fire.
M7p0K TIL that the secret ingredient of Fritos is a very specific variety of hybridized corn made and designed specifically for Fritos
j6brE TIL that Iberian harvester ants are the first known species other than humans that clone members of a separate species
0dxWv TIL about Albert Negahnquet, or Dom Bede, the first Native American Catholic priest. Ordained in 1903, he studied four years in Rome, then returned to the U.S., wanting to educate the Potawatomi people about the Bible in their own language. In 1925, he renounced his vows to marry a Texan widow.
grb19 TIL that in Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden and Switzerland, incest is legal, but only between same-sex couples.
LQG0p TIL James Garfield is the only president of the United States to have made an original contribution to the field of mathematics. His proof of the Pythagorean theorem was published in the New England Journal of Education in 1876.
b6bep TIL 80% of drivers believe their driving ability is above average
QN50L TIL that the oldest English-speaking settlement in Ontario is Moose Factory