X0KQk TIL Men who have children at older ages are more likely to have grandchildren with autism compared to younger grandfathers
OGNKa TIL about Japanese Toilet Meals - eating alone in a bathroom for various reasons, most commonly due to fear of being perceived as lonely because one is eating alone. Research in 2013 found that 12.08% of respondents said they'd eaten on the toilet, with a higher percentage of younger people & women.
69KDQ TIL In 1935, while heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt was in the hospital for an appendectomy, her mother convinced the doctors to sterilize her. It just so happened that there was a clause in Ann’s father’s will stating that if she had no heirs, her portion of his estate would revert to her mother.
wo7bY TIL that former NBA coach Don Nelson built a house in Maui completely out of Hemp, along with owning a farm that grows flowers, coffee, and cannabis.
R5Y1a TIL Shrek 2 played at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered and competed for the Palme d'Or. It is considered by many to be one of the best sequel films ever made.
W7aDL TIL that in what is now France in the 9th century, Charlemagne institutionalized wolf hunting, established the louveterie (wolf hunting corps). Since then, the wolf population in France fell close to extinction. Last confirmed hunt was in 1937.
9w1np TIL that in a part of India, people kill old people by making them drink an excessive amount coconut water. The process is known as Thalaikoothal.
nWP0W TIL that Five Guys puts extra fries in customers’ bags to convince them they’re getting a good deal, when it’s actually already factored into the price.
4kZJX TIL that Muhammad Ali released a 1976 educational album called “The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay.” It featured many other personalities including Frank Sinatra, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children.
x6ZQ1 TIL that 2025 marked the first time CRISPR gene therapy cured sickle cell disease
5VaNk TIL that amethyst is just purple quartz, and the main reason that quartz turns purple is because it's been irradiated
M786W TIL that the 19th Century photographic albumen printing process, which used egg whites as a binder to hold light-sensitive chemicals, yielded vast by-products of egg yolks. So photographers made recipes for them, such as "photographer's cheecake". They were sometimes published in old photo journals