9wXk6 TIL that scientists in 2012 found 17 juvenile tortoises on a volcanic crater that had half Pinta Island Tortoise DNA, thus Lonesome George might not actually be the last Pinta Island Tortoise alive.
nWM7r TIL despite getting a major-league record of 33 hits in one game in 1932, the Cleveland Indians baseball team lost 17-18 to the Philadelphia Athletics. The combined quantity of hits from both teams (58) is also a single-game record. The game lasted 18 innings and took over four hours.
4kWEN TIL You live longer if you live near an Ocean
x6nek TIL that when Nevada was in the process of becoming a U.S state, Governor James W. Nye became frustrated that previous attempts to send a copy of the state's constitution over land and sea had failed, and so decided to send a copy via telegraph at a cost of $4,303.27; equivalent to $86,514.04 today.
epbBD TIL the first documented serial killer from the Philippines was a catholic priest named Juan Severino Mallari during the Spanish colonial period. He reportedly killed 57 people in his parish before he was discovered, arrested, imprisoned and hanged in 1840.
VBbkk TIL David Packouz (played by Miles Teller in War Dogs) went on to invent the BeatBuddy drum machine
OGvVY TIL that the Talmud contains one of the earliest known "your mom" jokes. During a reading of a passage in Ezekiel which states "Make known to Jerusalem her abominations", Rabbi Eliezar shouted "Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother!"
X0bOD TIL about the Herm, a type of sculpture in Ancient Greece featuring a head atop a flat slab of stone, with only the genitalia carved below.
69weX TIL English actress Hermione Baddeley holds the record for the shortest Academy Award-nominated performance; she appeared for just 2:19 total in 1958's Room at the Top, an over two-hour film.
R5yM7 TIL the original county seat of Fresno County, CA, now sits at the bottom of an artificial reservoir.
wo4Yo TIL There are more species of Sponges (7,427) than Mammals (5,046)
W7bEY TIL the Stave Falls Power House was once British Columbia's largest source of electricity and the first automated powerhouse in the Commonwealth