nWYGB TIL of Christopher Duntsch, a surgeon so drug-fueled and incompetent he maimed 33 of 38 patients he operated on and was the first convicted of crime in the practice of surgery medicine
4kQ0o TIL Women live longer than men, but spend significantly more of those years battling illness and disability.
x6GO7 TIL the tiny white dots you see in the blue sky are your white blood cells moving through the small blood vessels in front of your retina.
epXMk TIL The classic NBC sitcoms Cheers and Frasier were (and still are) Paramount productions.
VBDGQ TIL Texas was it’s own country for ten years
X0yG6 TIL that what we call a bird's "backward knee" is actually its ankle, as most birds' thigh bones are hidden within their bodies.
OGdE6 TIL Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a Hanafuda card shop. The cards became so popular with the Yakuza that they based their full-body tattoos on Nintendo’s original illustrations. The cards eventually fell out of favor in the 1960s, leading Nintendo to reinvent itself through video games.
69x07 TIL the little white dots in your sight when looking at the clear blue sky is your white blood cells not being absorbed by light
wo16E TIL there is a radio station in a volcano on Ascension Island. The radio station was funded by the US Armed Forces, and operated from 1958 to 2009
R5GZl TIL a couple walking their dog found 1,427 buried gold coins valued at about $10 million, the largest known buried gold-coin discovery ever recovered in the United States.
W7mG9 TIL Dr. Seuss wrote a book called "Boners" and then a sequel called "More Boners", followed by "Still More Boners" and finally "Prize Boners for 1932"
9w906 TIL that Saul Bellow, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Tony Randall are all among the top 50 oldest fathers on record