OG1r6 TIL that 66% of lsraeIis are allergic to olive trees
69nJ7 TIL that actor Ernest Borgnine attributed his long life, 95, to the fact that he masturbates a lot.
wovBE TIL the CIA attempted to undermine Philippine presidential candidate Claro M. Recto by handing out punctured condoms branded “Courtesy of Claro M. Recto.”
R5JEl TIL one of the oldest forms of binary numbers and encoding were found in the Chinese work I Ching from the 9th century BC. 0 represented Yin and 1 represented Yang, and combinations of the two would be used to categorize all things, intended to allow diviners to use random numbers to tell the future
W7AK9 TIL most scholars agree that King James, of King James Bible fame, was a homosexual.
9wRm6 TIL In 2018, a research team from Mansoura University in Egypt discovered "Mansourasaurus shahinae", Egypt’s first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in decades. it was Found in the Western Desert near Dakhla Oasis, dating back 80 million years, it was published in journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
nWZOr TIL North Korea participated in the October - Yom Kippur War in 1973 with a squadron of well trained pilots after Egypt enlisted them, and the contingent consisted of 30 pilots, 8 air controllers, 5 translators, some of them lost their lives, and those alive were honored by the Egyptian leadership.
4kxGN TIL that the FV4005, built in 1952, features the largest tank gun ever produced at 183mm. The HESH shell weighed 212 lbs. and was so strong it could penetrate 6 in. of armor angled at 60 degrees up to 2000 yds. (12 in. of effective armor). The gun itself produced 87 tons of recoil when shot.
x6DYk TIL after spending 3 days with his arm trapped in a furnace, a man attempted to amputate it with a saw blade because he began to smell rotting flesh. Although he passed out from pain before he could completely sever it. He was rescued after a friend called for help when he hadn't shown up for work.
5V4pQ TIL that Ronald Reagan was strangled nearly to death by his chimpanzee costar
M75lV TIL the Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn (Raygun) threatened legal action against an Aussie musical about her because the musical planned to use her stage name and "kangaroo hop" dance move. The musical continued after changing the characters' name to Sprachel Gunn, AKA Spraygun
j6YWM TIL that there is a pornographic Batman parody of unknown origin that was discovered in the storage room of an adult movie theater in Tennessee