b6Q9N TIL After 9/11, the Maasai tribe of Kenya gave 14 of their most important cattle to America as aid.
QNoJp TIL that in October 2017, 170 people in Madagascar were killed and thousands were infected by the Black Death in the largest modern outbreak of the plague.
ANVDB TIL that we humans have no sensors to detect low levels of oxygen unlike in movies where people gasp in oxygen depleted environments. Three seafarer were in killed in a chain locker room in a ship and the oxygen was depleted because of rust.
yVxQa TIL the Little Shop of Horrors was originally a story of a vampire food critic called ‘Cardula’, then rewritten as the story, called ‘Gluttony’, of a salad chef cooking customers before realising that would not past the Motion Picture Code so decide to make it about a man eating plant instead.
m1MxM TIL Tiger stripes are unique. Like the human fingerprint, each tiger’s stripe pattern is one of a kind. Individual tigers are identified by their unique stripes and counted using camera trap images to estimate population numbers.
DQ81J TIL that horses, while strongly associated with European and Asian history, actually originated in North America. Their ancestors evolved here over 55 million years ago!
vPQ1D TIL the original Fallout 1 & 2 source code was believed to have been destroyed (preventing official re-releases), but a developer secretly defied orders and preserved it. The code still exists today but can't be released without Bethesda's approval.
J15Ym TIL that modern rocket engine nozzle and centrifugal cream separator were created as side projects during development of impulse steam turbine
pYQ8O TIL of the 69 emperors of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (14 CE) to Theodosius (395 CE), 43 emperors suffered violent death, that is 62%, died either by assassination (the most common mode of death), suicide or during combat with a foreign enemy of Rome.
GArY5 TIL Speculation as to "who shot J.R.?" on the TV show "Dallas" in 1980 was so intense that former President Ford tried to get the answer out of one of the producers, and the Queen Mother tried to pry it out of actor Larry Hagman while he was visiting the UK, neither of which were successful.
161aD TIL That Hulk Hogan has his leg broken by his first wrestling trainer, after rehabbing for 10 weeks he returned to train. The same trainer tried to break his leg again only this time Hulk blocked it.
oRjBA TIL in 2011 th German government found itself €55 billion richer after a discovery of an accounting error at Hypo Real Estate, the troubled bank it nationalised in 2009