VBZw0 TIL The Longest Insect Dormancy: Yucca Moth Larvae (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) Metamorphose After 20, 25, and 30 Years in Diapause
X0K4k TIL of the Mishima incident. On 11/25/1970, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and his militia entered a military base in Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to get the Japan Self-Defense Forces to restore national defense and the emperor divinity. After this failed, he committed seppuku.
OGNMa TIL A man named Merlin invented the first patented inline roller skates in the 1760's. He didn't come up with a way to stop though and crashed into a giant mirror while skating and playing the violin.
69KQQ TIL That one of the first solar-powered houses was built in 1948.
wo7KY TIL a man, who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2003, was forced to forfeit lottery winnings of $5.4 million because the ticket was purchased with proceeds of that trafficking.
R5Yna TIL that the Art of War, written by Sun Tzu in 5th-century BC, came to the attention of US’ military theory leaders after US' defeat in the Vietnam War, as Viet Cong officers studied it. It is since listed on US Marine Corps Program and used as instructional material at US Military Academy.
W7axL TIL about the Sturddlefish. In 2019, scientists accidentally inseminated a sturgeon with paddlefish sperm and created living hybrids, though the two species diverged over 180 million years ago, long before most mammal species split.
9w1Qp TIL that New Kids on the Block was created by music executive Maurice Starr as a white alternative to the R&B group New Edition
nWPmW TIL Saint Nicholas (Santa) slapped a priest at the First Council of Nicea during a debate on Christian Doctrine
4kZLX TIL John Sweeney, the first citizen to officially receive an SSA number, never collected any retirement benefits. He began paying his assessment in 1936, and died in 1978, at age 61
x6Za1 TIL about tooth-in-eye surgery, a surgery for restoring vision where a tooth implanted in the eye. For the surgery, the patient has a tooth removed and shaped, a plastic lens added, and put into their cheek for a few months to allow flesh to grow around it, then removed and implanted into their eye.
VBZk8 TIL the Ocean Ranger, then the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, sank off Newfoundland in 1982 with all 84 crew lost.