yV9ew TIL: Lucifer is Latin for “light bringer”
m1bVy TIL that ray spiders anchor their web with an extra thread attached to the center. By flicking tension on the anchor line with four of their legs, these spiders can fire their entire web like a bowstring, accelerating over 50 g to snatch passing insects out of the air in less than 1/100 of a second.
DQkxj TIL there is only one species of freshwater jellyfish native to North America (Craspedacusta sowerbii). They are harmless to humans.
vPxYr TIL about Krishnacore, a subgenre of hardcore punk that draws inspiration from the Hare Krishna tradition.
J1oBk TIL that the unconventional "Friendly Period" actually exists, it's just a fermata: 𝄑
pYjvp TIL that Jackson Pollock abandoned titles and started numbering his works. His wife, Lee Krasner, said, "He used to give his pictures conventional titles, but now he simply numbers them. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what it is, pure painting."
GAa9E TIL about the Dionne quintuplets born in 1934. They were a media sensation and the first recorded quintuplets to survive infancy. Born to poor people, so the Canadian authorities took the children from their parents and turned them into a tourist attraction called Quintland.
164g4 TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat
oR078 TIL couple and R&B duo Gene and Eunice had two nearly identical versions of the song “Ko Ko Mo” from two different record labels chart at the same time in 1954
dDgAQ TIL the greatest dressed weight for a turkey is 39.09 kg (86 lb) for a stag named Tyson, reared by Philip Cook of Leacroft Turkeys Ltd, Peterborough, UK. It won the last annual "heaviest turkey" competition, held in London on 12/12/1989. It was auctioned for charity for a record £4400 (then $6,692).
KY1AR TIL the Earl of Sandwich owns a chain of sandwich shops
a8bDo TIL that the New Orleans English accent (commonly known as "yat") is similar to the New York accent due to the influx of people from the Northeast especially from NYC.