Egay0 TIL the nation of Liberia's ship registry is administered by a private American company in Virginia.
Y75OZ TIL there are more possible chess games then atoms in the observable universe
BgkyW TIL Kiwifruit originated in China with first recordings dating back to the 12th century known as the Chinese Gooseberry. In 1959 a New Zealand exporter renamed it to Kiwifruit which made it easier to pass through customs checks and the name stuck which it's widely known today.
rNvEw TIL on October 17, 1814, a tank holding over 3,500 barrels of beer ruptured, causing a flood of brown porter ale that also blasted open several more vats, resulting in a flood of 320,000 gallons of beer that left 8 people dead.
NXDyP TIL 2000 years ago, in order to build a high-quality cavalry force, the Chinese took the initiative to invade Central Asia and destroyed a Hellenized kingdom.
l7dE1 TIL Nebraska has appeared in 8 NCAA Division I tournaments with a record of 0–8 and is the only power conference school that has never won a tournament game.
8eVXP TIL Kinder Chocolate is Italian
P1ybL TIL that elephants do not often use their tusks when they fight each other, and in fact, elephants with large tusks are usually weaker than individuals without tusks.
epYaD TIL when Yuri Gagarin (the first person in space) landed on earth he had to ask where a phone was in order to let people know he was back on Earth
VB9Rk TIL that Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro), the Joker (Heath Ledger & Joaquin Phoenix) and Anita (Rita Moreno & Ariana DeBose) are the 3 characters whose portrayals won Academy awards for two different persons.
X0R6D TIL about Tau (τ), a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius, that in 2010 was proposed to be the replacement of π.
OGmyY TIL that there were counterclockwise clocks.