4kwVg TIL In 2023 Tomas Lindberg of Melodic Death Metal band 'At The Gates' was diagnosed with ACC and would require surgery to remove most of the roof of his mouth, he entered the studio and recorded all vocals for future album 'The Ghost of a Future Dead' in a SINGLE day ONE day before surgery. RIP
x6xo5 TIL Disney's Lady and the Tramp's 'Siamese Cat Song' had a verse that was omitted from 1980s onward due to politicial reasons. The entire song was completely removed in the remake.
5V6l9 TIL that humans shed roughly 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute, which means in just one day, a single person can lose roughly 43-58 million skin cells. A surprising portion of household dust is actually made up of these tiny flakes of skin, so the dust bunnies under your bed are partly… you.
M7vQ0 TIL: The largest seed in the plant kingdom.
j6axj TIL Dan Rowan, of the TV show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, was a WW2 pilot flying a P40 Warhawk. He shot down two Japanese Zeros before being downed and badly injured. His plane still exists in England.
0dnNp TIL Iceland has never won a Winter Olympic medal
grka8 TIL Britain’s youngest female killer committed her first murder at age 10 in 1968, a day before her 11th birthday, left notes about the crime at a nursery she vandalised (with a friend) the next day and was only arrested after her second murder two months later.
LQJOV TIL a philanthropist was not happy with just donating his $45m fortune, he then gave away a kidney to a stranger
b6Nv7 TIL Amir Khusrau, a 13th-century Turco-Indo-Persian Muslim poet, wrote an epic where Alexander is a Roman emperor who conquers China and Rus', defeats Frankish pirates, explores the Atlantic in a glass submarine, and is hailed as the second Solomon and world ruler of Rome, Africa, Persia, and China
QNAMM TIL left-handed men's dominant armpit smells more masculine & intense — but only to fertile women not on the pill
ANEYg TIL Marzieh Arfa became the (Imperial) Iranian Army's first female general over a decade before the US Army reached the same milestone.
yV4OV TIL that thanks to Cyprus, Greek islands off the cost of Turkey. and French territories in NA / Africa / SA, the Euro is a local currency on at least five continents (six if you count Oceania as a continent).