M7850 TIL Whitney Houston & Vanessa Williams were the frontrunners for Denise & Sondra Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Houston turned down the role after deciding to become a singer. Williams was required to turn down the role after winning Miss America. The parts went to Lisa Bonet & Sabrina Le Beauf.
j6OYj TIL the U.S. Capitol has its own underground subway system with three lines that takw lawmakers and staff from the Senate and House office buildings directly to the Capitol building.
0dYLp TIL: A cloud weighs about a million tonnes. A typical cumulus cloud has a volume of around one cubic kilometer, and even though its density is slightly lower than the surrounding air, the sheer volume results in a mass that can exceed a million tonnes.
grRN8 TIL: About 30% of people are naturally "night owls," a preference known as a chronotype, which is largely genetic and is not due to a lack of discipline. Forcing a night owl to adhere to an early schedule can lead to chronic sleep deprivation and associated health problems.
LQPKV TIL -- Men who were obese as children tend to have shorter penises
b6xV7 TIL that "blood is thicker than water" was not created in the 1990s but rather dates back 900ish years
QNBpM TIL - Natural gas is odorless, gas companies are required by federal law to add a chemical called mercaptan to give it a distinctive rotten egg or sulfur smell to help detect leaks
AN58g TIL about Galaxy Filaments, the largest known structures in the universe. Consisting of walls of galactic superclusters, these massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50 to 80 megaparsecs (160 to 260 megalight-years) in size.
yVamV TIL that sushi was originally street food in Japan, but after the 1923 Kanto Earthquake, it moved indoors. The earthquake caused land prices to drop and indoor sushi restaurants(sushi-ya in Japanese) popped up. By the 1950s, the practice became common.
m1e7x TIL the 2001 World Series was the first to end in November, due to the week-long delay in the regular season after the September 11 attacks. Game 4 had begun on October 31 but went into extra innings and ended early on the morning of November 1, the first time the Series had been played in November.
DQWrg TIL About 30% of people are natural “night owls,” genetically predisposed to peak later in the day.
vPkx7 TIL that the Borg in Star Trek originally had no leader. The Borg Queen was added in First Contact (1996) for storytelling reasons. The writers thought audiences needed a single villain rather than a faceless hive mind.