69wBQ TIL that the BBC offers their news in pidgin language, too
wo4EY TIL The names "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" do not refer to the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki specifically, but were instead names for the bomb designs used.
R5ypa TIL that on May 2017, an engineer improperly activating an uninterruptible power supply at a data center resulted in a power outage at that data center, which resulted in 75000 British Airways passengers being stranded over a 3 day period during a holiday period.
W7bpL Today I learned that in the 2000's, the people in charge of Sesame Street's budget wanted the show to have 25 episodes per season, but the show's staff insisted upon doing 26 episodes per season so that each letter of the alphabet would be the letter of the day for one episode.
9wXvp TIL Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.
nWMoW TIL in the 13th century a Hungarian friar discovered a group of Magyars living in the original Hungarian homeland, still speaking the a mutually intelligible dialect despite 400 years of separation. When he returned four years later, the area had been devastated by Mongols
4kWKX TIL a female wolf has 318 bones. A male wolf has one extra bone.
x6nE1 TIL that Women's Liberation protestors in the 1960's never actually burned a bra, and that the story was concocted by conservative media.
5VRdk TIL that the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City is the largest and loudest musical instrument ever built - with over 33,000 pipes, 7 keyboards, and a stop so powerful (the Grand Ophicleide) it was described as “more than six times louder than the loudest locomotive whistle.”
M7pgW TIL some moths drink blood
j6bRv TIL about Matthias Knutzen, the first known person to call himself an atheist in modern history. Very little is known about his life and he disappeared from the public record in 1674. He openly rejected the idea of a higher power, soul, devil, and afterlife, opposing all political authority
0dxJj TIL the singer for "The Great Gig in the Sky" is Clare Torry, an English singer-songwriter who voices the improvised vocals on the track. She recorded the vocals for Pink Floyd and was paid £30 for the session. She later sued for co-composer credit, which was granted in 2005.