KYeea TIL "You have the right to remain silent" means "You are allowed to stay quiet IF YOU WANT." This whole time I thought it meant "Be quiet" (Sorry I'm not from the US and I've only heard this in movies so please forgive my ignorance lol I feel so slow)
a8mmb TIL while making Luxo Jr, Pixar used Disney’s animation principles to show character emotions. They knew it had worked when, after the premiere, computer scientist Jim Blinn approached John Lasseter, and instead of asking about a technical detail, Blinn asked if the big lamp was the mom or the dad.
Zpooo TIL that iceland and the UK had a series of naval military confrontations. Iceland demanded the US to bomb British ships and threatened to leave NATO which in the end forced the UK to backdown. It's known as the cod wars.
78ddx TIL Hurricane Katrina displaced over one million people from the central Gulf Coast to elsewhere across the United States, becoming the largest diaspora in the history of the United States
kJXXg TIL MLB hasn't had a repeat champion since 2000 New York Yankees
EgRRp TIL: 16 Psyche is thought to be an exposed core of an early protoplanet in our asteroid belt.
Y7ddW TIL Australia successfully eradicated the invasive grey squirrel from Adelaide in the early 1900s through a prompt and coordinated effort involving government control and a bounty system
Bgnnb TIL that apple had one of their sounds be named sosumi (pronounced so sue me) because apple corps kept suing them for defying their rules.
rNrr0 TIL the theme music for NBA on NBC broadcasts, "Roundball Rock," that soundtracked the network's NBA coverage from 1990 to 2002 - during periods when NBC didn't broadcast the NBA - was used as NBC's theme for its Olympic basketball coverage, first in 2008 and then in every Summer Olympics since 2016
NXll8 TIL about the mass exodus of slaves to the Union Army during the American Civil War, which W.E.B. Du Bois theorized as a General Strike.
l7VVG TIL that Tupac Shakur was reportedly considered for the role of Jedi Master Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, but he passed away in 1996 before he could audition.
8e55L TIL that while naming the Simpsons' grandpa, Matt Groening chose not to name him after his own grandfather, but allow the other writers to choose a name. The chose the name "Abraham", which, coincidentally, was the name of Groening's grandfather.