0dn55 TIL In 1994 Prince designed and patented his very own instrument, the Purpleaxxe Keytar.
grkgD TIL that Hawaii is not protected by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. Article 6 limits collective defense to territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and North Atlantic islands north of the Tropic of Cancer. Hawaii falls just south of that line and has never been added.
LQJwm TIL that French film star Max Linder survived a childhood case of cholera by resting in the oven of the village baker.
b6NGj TIL that atoms are 99.99999% empty space. If you removed all that space from the atoms of every human on Earth, the entire world population would fit inside an apple.
yV4gX TIL A scientific study published in 2007 found that, out of the oils you can stir-fry broccoli in, broccoli retains the most Vitamin C when stir-fried in extra-virgin olive oil or sesame oil.
m1ogp TIL that in the Elizabethan era, lower class people would artificially blacken their teeth with soot to appear richer, since the wealthy and particularly the Queen wrecked their teeth with sugar
QNAea TIL Gustaf Dalen invented a gas light in 1912 that automatically turned itself on at dusk and off at dawn
ANE1x TIL Shatoosh, meaning wool king in Persian, is the wool from a Tibetan antelope, with the average fiber diameter of a down hair being 11.45 microns compared with cashmere 13-15 microns. it is known as the finest of all animal hairs. The production, sale, and acquisition of it is illegal.
vPAg8 TIL that great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes while humans have 23 pairs because 2 ape chromosomes fused into 1 human chromosome.
GAd4G TIL of Philip Noel-Baker, the only person to receive both a Nobel prize and an Olympic medal.
pYpMN TIL a study found that chimpanzees consume the equivalent of about 2.5 alcoholic drinks per day by eating fermented fruit. The research further supports the "drunken monkey" hypothesis, which argues that humans inherited an appetite for alcohol from our primate ancestors.
J1GWv TIL in 2016 Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scored 60 points, in a win against the Indiana Pacers, while only dribbling the ball 11 times the entire game (and despite touching the ball a total of 52 times).