J1KLB TIL Battle of the Overpass occurred in 1937 when UAW organizers tried to hand out unionization leaflets but were attacked by Ford's quasi-military security service. Ford then tried to destroy the photographic evidence but one photographer managed to sneak some out under the back seat of his car.
pYNAG TIL A male Wyandotte chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
GAKLg TIL that 7 former U.S. Supreme Court Justices had no formal university legal education
16ok7 TIL: Saddam Hussein Claimed He Won The Gulf War.
oRlpR TIL some clothes have a tag with the manufacture date! It’s usually on the shinier little tag. Ex. 07/20 or SUM 09. This brings me joy.
dD978 TIL the owners of Marilyn Monroe's house (where she died) want to demolish it to expand the property next door
KYKL6 TIL that Referees who officiate the final NFL Super Bowl also receive championship rings.
a8xdZ TIL As many as 1 in 4 residents in La Rinconada, the highest human settlement in the world, suffer from hypoxia.
ZplgB TIL The only episode of The Simpsons in which Marge does not have a speaking part is season 4's Krusty Gets Kancelled. Julie Kavner objected to the use of 'tasteless' celebrity cameos, and boycotted the episode.
kJVWm TIL Garth Brooks once tried to donate part of his liver to Rodeo man and country singer Chris LeDoux upon LeDoux's diagnosis with primary sclerosing cholangitis
78MJ7 TIL that during World War II, British intelligence spread a rumor that eating carrots improved night vision to cover up the fact that their pilots were using radar technology to target enemy planes in the dark.
EgKJw TIL the @ sign is called "a snail" in Italian, "a puppy" in Armenian, "a little mouse" in Chinese, "a monkey" in Polish, "a duckling" in Greek, "a worm" in Hungarian, "a little dog" in Russian, "a cinnamon roll" in Swedish, "a strudel" in Hebrew and "rollmops" in Czech