a8mvb TIL Myrtle Corbin was born in Tennessee in 1868. She had two pelvises and four legs, and in her lifetime had five children. She died a week before her 60th birthday.
ZpoDo TIL that in medieval Europe, people used urine to bleach their clothing because it contains ammonia.
78dGx TIL that Target operates two criminal forensics laboratories, and offers pro bono services to law enforcement across the country
kJXrg TIL the first known blast beat in rock music was heard as far back as 1970 by a proto-metal band called Attila— which also happened to have Billy Joel on vocals
EgRQp TIL judicial flogging in the United States was last carried out in 1952(!), when a Delaware wife-beater got 20 lashes
Y7dPW TIL Rihanna is the second highest selling black music act after Michael Jackson and the second highest selling female music act after Madonna with reported sales in excess of 250 million
BgnZb TIL many tree species, for example oaks, produce seeds on an irregular schedule; some years they produce seeds and some years they do not. However, all the trees in a given area will produce seeds at the same time. This population-level synchronized behavior is known as 'mast-seeding'.
rNr50 TIL 77% of Canadian women have a tertiary education.
NXl08 TIL about the Solomon Amendment, a federal law that requires higher education institutions to provide military recruiters with access to student directory information for recruitment purposes.
8e5ML TIL the Louvre has been renting Nintendo 3DS units for self-guided tours for over a decade. They are now ending the program.
l7V1G TIL that psychopathy is present in around 1 percent of the population, but 25 percent of prisoners.
P1r0J TIL that even though the Manhattan Project cost about $2 billion ($30 billion adjusted to 2024), it wasn't the most expensive project of WWII. The development of the B-29 Superfortress cost about $3 billion ($52 billion adjusted)