OGXmY TIL Historians rediscovered the tomb of the “missing pharaoh” Thutmose II the first new royal tomb found since Tutankhamun.
69rOX TIL in 2016, the CEO of human resources startup Zenefits had to send a memo explicitly banning drinking and having sex in the office after "several used condoms were found in the stairwell".
wogQo TIL MC HAMMER was a true gangster and other rappers feared him. He would threaten and put out hits on other rappers who he felt discredited him, or his family.
R5PQ7 TIL The Tomato Was Once Feared as Poison
W7BWY TIL that Polish model Agnieszka Kotlarska-Świątek, survived missing TWA Flight 800, only to be murdered by a stalker weeks later in front of her husband and daughter
9wERG TIL that after reading Rutherford’s paper on atomic disintegration, Henry Adams wrote in 1902 : “At this rate, thought will be overturned; law replaced by force [...] explosives will reach cosmic violence.” Less than 50 years later, the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico, July 16, 1945.
nWgZb TIL Harvard had lost original Magna Carta hiding in its archives for almost 80 years.
4klx5 TIL Investigation on the Bangla 211 plane crash revealed the the pilot had been "severely distressed" and hadn't slept the night before the flight. He was crying in the cockpit while telling the story of an alleged affair with one of his trainees and was too anxious to pay attention to the job
x6gDw TIL about the Amish community and their puppy mills. The Amish view their dogs as livestock and those that are bred are kept in unsanitary conditions with inadequate care. Dogs kept at these facilities get little to no veterinary care resulting in suffering and death.
5VN4p TIL that in 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted for 8 months. It caused a famine that killed 1/3rd of all Icelanders and changed global temperatures. The 1784 winter saw ice flows in the Gulf of Mexico and a frozen Mississippi river as far as New Orleans
M765a TIL that last june,a wels catfish in northern Bavaria was shot dead by police officers, after it bit five people in the Brombachsee.The police claimed killing the fish was necessary as it posed a threat to swimmers in the lake and to the guests of a music festival nearby.
j6gYa TIL older adults who regularly use smartphones and computers tend to have lower rates of cognitive decline