Y7b8P TIL the Ancash (Peru) earthquake of 1970 caused widespread building collapses and severe landslides, resulting in 70,000 deaths.
BgYKx TIL that Inside Out 2 is the only film inside the top 10 highest grossing films of all time that has a runtime of under 2 hours. It's total runtime is 1 hour and 36 minutes long.
rNbBW TIL that during the British expedition to Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) had 3600 animals used, including several elephants to carry canons and 800 medical leaches.
NXJnM TIL that major social media platforms, especially X, artificially inflate politically divisive content to fuel political disagreements
l7beB TIL that during the Battle of Lepanto it is said that at some point the Janissaries ran out of weapons and started throwing oranges and lemons at their Christian adversaries, leading to awkward scenes of laughter among the general misery of battle.
8eOK8 TIL that according to legend Emperor Alexander I of Russia might have faked his own death to live as a hermit in Siberia, said hermit later became canonized as a saint. Historians are debating this since it actually has plausible evidence to it.
P1DWe TIL a Japanese veterinarian officer by the name of Hiroshi Yamasaki deserted the army after witnessing the Rape of Nanking. He then went on to dedicate the rest of his life for humanitarian cause by open up a clinic to treat poor people, often without a charge.
epbWn TIL: "Officer Obie" from the song "Alice's Restaurant" was a real person, and modeled for several Norman Rockwell paintings.
VBbVB TIL The Washington Redskins were the last NFL team to racially integrate under pressure from the federal government, finally doing so in 1962. The 1961 team finished last place at 1-12-1
X0bPE TIL there was a Subway restaurant at the top of the One World Trade Centre construction site, when workers finished a floor, it'd be raised to the next one!
OGv9e TIL that in 1987 Yoshikazu Kurosawa first described the idea of modified CAR-T-cells that could target specific cancer cells.
69w1Z TIL the NFL Super Bowl was named by KC Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt. Hunt wrote, "I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon." The original name was the "AFL–NFL World Championship Game."