VBbBD TIL of Legetang, a hamlet in Indonesia which was completely buried 2 meters deep on April 17, 1955 by a landslide, leaving no survivors or traces of the village, save for a monument later established by neighboring villages. 351 villagers and 19 visitors died.
X0b0R TIL Bobby Fischer learned chess at age 6 when his sister randomly bought him a cheap chess set and he got so obsessed he used to study chess books for hours alone in his Brooklyn apartment.
OGvG1 TIL that the Trojan Horse was most likely just a myth.
69w9w TIL that we, humans, basically have two Noses, each nostril leads to its own nasal cavity with independent erectile tissue that swells and shrinks, so one side does most of the breathing while the other rests, and then they switch in a cycle.
wo4o7 TIL that Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a hallmark of bad recording being horribly overcompressed
R5y51 TIL: Xuetas (also called Chuetas) are descendants of Jews in Majorca, Spain, who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Inquisition, leading to centuries of secret Jewish practice. Today, many are actively reclaiming their Jewish roots.
W7b7B TIL Al Michaels is the only play-by-play commentator or host to cover all four major U.S. sports championships. He covered the Super Bowl 11 times, the World Series 8 times, the NBA Finals 2 times, and the Stanley Cup Final 3 times.
9wXwB TIL that the salt content of food like miso soup helped people break out of prison. In 1944, Yoshie Shiratori escaped prison by using miso soup
nWMWd TIL Olympus Mascots, in Wisconsin, is the largest producer of mascots in the USA.
4kWkb TIL Singles' Day or Bachelors' Day or Double 11 is an unofficial Chinese holiday for people who are not in a relationship. The date, 11/11, was chosen because the number 1 resembles a bare stick, Chinese Internet slang for an unmarried man.
x6n60 TIL: In 1773, a Palestinian Rabbi named Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal made American history by delivering the first published Jewish sermon in the Colonies. His speech took place in Newport, Rhode Island and was preached in Ladino (a Jewish-Spanish language)
5VRVD TIL about composer Henry Cowell's "theory of musical relativity" that says rhythm & pitch exist on the same continuum. He argued that if you speed up a rhythm enough, it eventually becomes a perceivable pitch, implying that tempo & tone are fundamentally the same phenomenon at different frequencies.