LQ709 TIL Georgian has a vigesimal (20-based) number system
b6Qea TIL actor James Hayden received a standing ovation for his role as a drug addict in the Broadway play American Buffalo. Just 6 hours later, while on the phone with his estranged wife, he suddenly stopped speaking. Police were called and found him slumped over. He died of an apparent heroin overdose
QNo06 TIL that Lenacapavir, A revolutionary HIV prevention shot, now FDA & WHO approved just 2 injections a year showed 99.9% effectiveness in a global 2,179-person trial, with only 2 infections reported
ANVAn TIL about Sadako Sasaki (1943–1955). She was two years old when Hiroshima was bombed and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years before dying from leukemia caused by radiation exposure. She is remembered for folding over a thousand origami cranes before her death.
yVx8p TIL Apple didn't invent Siri, they merely purchased it from an existing company.
m1MZo TIL that Eminem holds the Guinness World Record for the most words in a hit single with “Rap God,” which contains approximately 1,560 words in just over 6 minutes, averaging ~4.28 words per second—and a peak segment of 97 words in just 15 seconds
DQ8Br TIL: Because of a combination of a change of a drug used, and over EIGHT failed attempts to get a vein, Clayton Lockett suffered through every bit of pain during his botched lethal injection.
vPQax TIL that Hans Christian Andersen frequently accompanied his younger Danish friends to Paris brothels, where, while his companions "amused themselves", he talked to the sex workers
J15jV TIL German has incredibly specific compound words for human experiences
pYQrQ TIL in 1937 Angelo Hays slammed headfirst into a brick wall in a motorcycle crash & was declared dead. However he was discovered alive when his body was exhumed 2 days after his funeral. He made a full recovery & invented a coffin that contained a "small oven, refrigerator & a hi-fi cassette player"
GArp4 TIL that American movie producer Robert Goldstein was sentenced to ten years in 1918 under the Espionage Act for a film that portrayed the British negatively during the American Revolution.
161RX TIL that Coconut Crabs (the largest arthropods on Earth at up to 9lbs) are ticklish. If you're pinched by one, "a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to loosen its hold."