W7anX TIL a blue whale’s heartbeat can be detected two miles away.
9w1Gr TIL that during a stay in Winterville, Georgia, Butthole Surfers made a hobby out of stalking the members of fellow rock band R.E.M., purportedly planning to park a van with the phrase “Michael Stipe/Despite the Hype/I Still Wanna Suck/Your Big Long Pipe” painted on the side parked outside his house
nWPR9 TIL that Japanese researchers won an award for Biology, at the Ig Nobel 2025 Awards, for research on reducing blood-feeding insect bites on cows by painting on black and white stripes.
4kZYR TIL a few dozen staff occupy the research station at the South Pole during polar winter(6 months of night). An annual tradition is a back-to-back-to-back viewing of The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter.
x6Zdb TIL Shakespeare invented over 1000 words including common words like “uncomfortable,” “castigate,” and “cold-blooded,” then got mocked for filling English with “pretentious nonsense.”
ep9J4 TIL that Dan Aykroyd has Asperger, Tourette's, and heterochromia (two different colored eyes)
VBZxp TIL about Dan Bricklin, the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
X0KWr TIL Michael Jackson donated over $500 million to 39 charities and Tupac Shakur personally funded college educations for over 100 students, both making most of their donations anonymously despite their public personas.
OGNpg TIL a single gunpowder factory explosion in ancient China killed 20k people & the Crown prince, hobbled the military, and accelerated the fall of the Ming dynasty
69KZW TIL that the most expensive Pokémon trading card sold at a private sale was when Logan Paul bought the PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card on 7/22/2021 for $5,275,000. It was purchased with a combination of a PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator card worth $1,275,000 and $4,000,000 in cash.
wo7a8 Today I learned music can explain exactly how you feel
R5YA8 TIL Susana Higuchi was the wife of Alberto Fujimori, the authoritarian president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. While her husband was still in office she denounced him as a corrupt tyrant, divorced him, and joined the opposition later being elected to the congress.