NXlRQ Today I learned singer Brocarde, who was once married to a Victorian ghost, claimed to conjure the spirit of Lemmy of Motorhead. He apparently appeared with a black stallion and some pizza.
l7VA5 TIL: 99 percent of all species ever are extinct and of one percent alive today only 14 percent have been documented and described!
8e5dX TIL about Heslington brain, a rare case of a well-preserved brain from a man who lived almost 2,600 years ago during the Iron Age. It was discovered in 2008.
P1r6O TIL about the three christs of Yipsilanti, a psychiatric case study where three men who each believed themselves to be Jesus Christ were forced to interact with each other.
ep9G4 TIL Bernie Ecclestone (former head of F1) is among the oldest known fathers in the world. His first son was born when he was 89. Enrique Iglesias' grandfather has him beat though - his last child was born when he was 90.
VBZ8p TIL Italy was given back Somalia in 1950, nine years after losing it in WW2.
X0KNr TIL "Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. It alludes to the myth of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. The turtle rests on the back of a larger turtle, which itself is part of an indefinite column of increasingly larger turtles
OGNwg TIL there is no 0 BC. The calendar goes from 1 BC to AD 1
69KaW TIL Siskel and Ebert briefly had a sidekick mascot named Aroma the Skunk.
wo7W8 TIL that Tranquillity Lodge No. 2000 is the Masonic lodge that covers the moon. It stems from the Grand Lodge of Texas, where Buzz Aldrin is a member. He carried a Special Deputation from the lodge to the moon making the claim of jurisdiction.
R5YX8 TIL a priest named Savonarola led a popular revolution in Florence by denouncing the corruption and wealth of city aristocrats, including the Medici. For four years in the 1490s the people of Florence chased out the wealthy and burned their belongings.
9w1oQ TIL several people sentenced to death but who survived their executions by hanging in Britain were subsequently pardoned and set free.