P1r6O TIL about the three christs of Yipsilanti, a psychiatric case study where three men who each believed themselves to be Jesus Christ were forced to interact with each other.
ep9G4 TIL Bernie Ecclestone (former head of F1) is among the oldest known fathers in the world. His first son was born when he was 89. Enrique Iglesias' grandfather has him beat though - his last child was born when he was 90.
VBZ8p TIL Italy was given back Somalia in 1950, nine years after losing it in WW2.
X0KNr TIL "Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. It alludes to the myth of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. The turtle rests on the back of a larger turtle, which itself is part of an indefinite column of increasingly larger turtles
OGNwg TIL there is no 0 BC. The calendar goes from 1 BC to AD 1
69KaW TIL Siskel and Ebert briefly had a sidekick mascot named Aroma the Skunk.
wo7W8 TIL that Tranquillity Lodge No. 2000 is the Masonic lodge that covers the moon. It stems from the Grand Lodge of Texas, where Buzz Aldrin is a member. He carried a Special Deputation from the lodge to the moon making the claim of jurisdiction.
R5YX8 TIL a priest named Savonarola led a popular revolution in Florence by denouncing the corruption and wealth of city aristocrats, including the Medici. For four years in the 1490s the people of Florence chased out the wealthy and burned their belongings.
W7alo TIL about the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel. A massive underground water storage facility built under Tokyo to handle possible flooding. The main tank can hold 670,000 cubic meters, equivalent to 268 Olympic sized swimming pools. Work has recently begun to double capacity.
9w1oQ TIL several people sentenced to death but who survived their executions by hanging in Britain were subsequently pardoned and set free.
nWPb7 TIL that there was a Ferris Bueller TV show spinoff. It starred Jennifer Aniston and lasted 13 episodes before being cancelled.
4kZ76 TIL The Rosetta Stone was discovered by French soldiers in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign in the city of Rosetta. The stone was inscribed with the same decree in three scripts hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek which proved to be the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.