P1rDJ TIL: Iceland had no mosquitoes till recently(?)
ep9bE TIL that sometimes saying that you "blew someone's brains out" isn't exaggeration; the "Kronlein shot" is "a gunshot wound to the skull in which the cranium is blasted open and large pieces of the brain ejected out of the skull"
VBZbm TIL the Toronto Blue Jays have been owned by Rogers Communications since 2000. The Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves are the only two MLB teams under corporate ownership. The Braves are owned by Liberty Media.
X0KbP TIL the Dodgers and Giants baseball teams originally started in New York. When they relocated to California, leaving NYC without a National League franchise, a new team was started, the Mets. The Mets then adopted the blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants
OGNv4 TIL in 1987, the residents of the atoll island of Faaite in French Polynesia were gripped by mass hysteria brought on by Tahitian cultists who had taken control of the local church leadership and spread rumors of demon possession which culminated in six locals being burned alive on a bonfire.
69Kw8 TIL that the childhood game Jackpot, in which a ball is thrown into the air for multiple people to catch, has an antecedent (Ourania) that dates back to at least the 2nd Century AD in Greece
wo74P TIL that, with a population of 33,600, San Marino is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal. Only 5 athletes from San Marino were sent at the 2020 Olympics and 3 of them won medals
R5Yy4 TIL Despite having the Great Pyramid of Giza built during his reign, the the only known surviving intact depiction of pharaoh Khufu himself is a small 7.5 cm tall statuette
W7abN TIL of something called PlayCable, the world's first online video game service where you could download games and play them on your Intellivision system.
9w1XM TIL lemons float and limes sink in drinks, due to limes being a little denser than lemons
nWPMo TIL many of the McDonald's Monopoly prizes stay unclaimed. In 2018, 25 million instant food prizes were offered in the United Kingdom promotion, but only 8 million prizes were claimed overall. Out of 20 Mini Coopers offered, only 6 were claimed.
4kZWg TIL that time moves faster on your head than your feet due to gravitational time dilation.