m1bev TIL Jim Bowie, the man behind the Bowie knife, made much of his wealth through slave laundering, forgery, and other crimes
DQkWY TIL that Millard Fillmore was the last US president to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican
vPxkK TIL that in 1967, a single-engine Cessna 195 carrying a family of three crashed into the trinity mountains. Though they survived up to two months after the crash, this was before emergency beacon locators was required equipment on planes, the plane was not found for over a year, when they were dead.
J1oVB TIL Juliette Lewis starred in both Kalifornia and Natural Born Killers. Both films were inspired by the Starkweather case, released within a year of one another and had a plot about a man and woman on a kill spree.
pYjlG TIL there is an Atlantic City, Wyoming, named as such due to its location on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
GAa6g TIL that the Knutby murder in Sweden involved a pastor who sent anonymous SMS messages to a church member to manipulate her into shooting his wife. The case later became the subject of HBO's documentary Pray, Obey, Kill.
164E7 TIL that Courland colonized the Americas during the 17th century, owning a small colony on the island of Tobago. Also, TIL of Courland.
oR08R TIL that Canadian hockey player Ivan “Ching” Johnson (1897-1979) didn’t start playing competitive hockey until he was in his 20s and was nearly 30 when he broke into the NHL. He then went on to become a fan favourite, played more than 430 games, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958.
dDgn8 TIL "Emoji" is a registered trademark for many products, and Emoji Co. aggressively enforces it on sites like Amazon
KY1e6 TIL the modern Rotisserie-style fantasy baseball league originated in 1980 when New York journalists created “Rotisserie League Baseball” during weekly dinners at La Rotisserie Française, using real MLB stats to determine the winner.
a8bQZ TIL about "The Indiscreet Jewels", a French novel published in 1748 about a magical ring that makes vaginas talk, literally. Its author, Denis Diderot, is one of the most prominent figures of the Age of Enlightenment.
ZpbLB TIL that "Dumpster" is actually a brand name and was named after it's creators the Dempster brothers.