TIL that during the Western Schism of the Catholic Church, there was a cardinal appointed by Antipope Benedict XIII who split with the others and, acting as the entire college of cardinals, elected someone Pope all by himself; when that guy died, he elected himself Pope all by himself.
TIL Ross Perot is one of the most successful 3rd party presidential candidates, winning 19% of the popular vote as an independent in 1992. Active in issues relating to POWs in the Vietnam War, he orchestrated a daring rescue of two of his own employees who were taken hostage in Iran in 1979.
TIL In 2001 Shaquille O'Neal made a hip-hop album produced by Dr. Dre and others, that has never been released.
TIL that Imhotep was an Egyptian architect, physician, and advisor to four pharaohs. He lived around 2667-2600 B.C. Imhotep practiced early medicine nearly 2200 years before Hippocrates and designed Djoser’s step pyramid at saqqara. He is the only Egyptian besides Amenhotep to ever be fully deified.
TIL there are at least 17 satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope. They are spy satellites pointed at Earth and Hubble is basically built from spare parts.
TIL that an distraught Elephant in India went on a retaliatory rampage, killing and even consuming multiple people after her calf was killed by villagers.
TIL of the 67 people who have served as President of Bolivia, 13 (19%) died by tragic means. 5 died in office, 3 by assassination and 2 of the 5 who died were suspected assassinations. A further 8 former presidents were assassinated in various ways after leaving office.
TIL Between 1935-44, William Boeing and his wife set aside land outside Seattle city limits for subdivision and placed covenants to enforce segregation, forbidding properties from being "sold, conveyed, rented, or leased in whole or in part to any person not of the White or Caucasian race."
Today I Learned that the worlds biggest collection of Nash Motors automobiles(about 268 of them) rests 450 feet under water in Lake Michigan when the ship carrying them was struck by another and sank.
TIL that in 1961 an aircraft crash nearly set off a nuclear detonation 250x the size of Hiroshima in North Carolina. The only thing that prevented it from going off was a simple low voltage safety switch.