OGvbY TIL At age 14, Rosie Hamlin wrote a poem for her first boyfriend. The next year Hamlin now the lead singer of the band Rosie and the Originals turned the poem into the song Angel Baby. It became a top 40 hit and John Lennon would later cite it as one of his favorite songs.
69wpX TIL the red-necked keelback snake is both poisonous and venomous. Its venom causes hemorrhaging and its poison is stored from the toads it eats.
wo4Mo TIL that the median Canadian is wealthier than the median American
R5ym7 TIL birds are not descended from bird-hipped dinosaurs (Ornithischians,) but rather, lizard-hipped dinosaurs (Saurischians). Birds and bird-hipped dinosaurs evolved their hip structures independently of one another.
W7b5Y TIL fires from Christmas lights were a significantly higher risk before LEDs. Bulbs could get hot to the touch after only a few minutes, and when wrapped around a dry tree could ignite.
9wXbG TIL that, among all the alleged miracles of Jesus, only two appear in all four gospels: The resurrection, and the feeding of 5,000 people.
nWMwb TIL In 2014, a NIM study set the DRA for vitamin D 15 times too low due to a simple calculation error... and it was never corrected.
4kWb5 TIL The idiom "it's all greek to me" has many different translations around the world.
x6nrw TIL Pep was a prison dog sent to Eastern State Pen in Philadelphia in 1924 to help with moral and keep rodents away. He was inducted into the prison with his own inmate number and was paw-printed. He was “accused of murdering a cat.” The accusation was just as a joke.
5VRLp TIL about the Wolfowitz Doctrine
M7pja TIL: About 2800 Polar Way, a cold storage facility located in Richland, Washington State, It is both the largest refrigerated warehouse and the largest automated freezer on Earth, the facility is capable of storing about 350 million pounds of frozen food.
j6bna TIL The youngest grandmaster ever is Abhimanyu Mishra. At just 12 years old, he was able to become a chess grandmaster.