0d1KL TIL during a hunting trip in 1913 the race car driver Camille Jenatzy hid behind a bush, made animal noises and was promptly shot by a friend, he died in a car on the way to hospital, fulfilling his own prediction that he would die in a Mercedes
gr54b TIL in the Siege of Leningrad, Nobel laureate economist and mathematician Leonid Kantorovich calculated an optimal distance between cars on the Road of Life based on temperature and ice thickness to ensure they didn't sink into Lake Ladoga. He walked between cars on the lake to ensure they complied.
LQA8P TIL a plant called b. fiolata can replicate the leaves of multiple nearby plants on a single vine by copying features such as leaf size, area, length, angle, color, and even spines
b6yAQ TIL ancient Persians would debate important matters while both drunk and sober. If a decision was approved in both states, the decision would be held. If not, it would be dismissed.
QN9Ye TIL Bolivia has experienced more than 190 coups d'état and revolutions since its independence was declared in 1825
ANGnd TIL that "historians have determined that nearly 50 percent of the population of Sicily and southern Italy has Italian Jewish roots and was once Jewish."
yV7EM TIL There was once a highly contagious disease that caused people to start dancing uncontrollably!
m1j6R TIL China's rival to Starlink is called SkyNet, the same name of the Terminator's franchise AI system that conquered the world.
DQvRV TIL that interpretations of the film The Shining as referencing treatment of Native Americans, were made as early as 1987 in an essay in The Washington Post.
vP5rL TIL That a small cloud (1 Cubic Kilometer) weighs about 1.1 million lbs!
pYyVA TIL of drummer Cozy Powell's fatal car crash. He was traveling 104mph in the rain while drunk and talking on his phone with a woman who was cheating on her husband with him. He also had no seatbelt on, a leaking tire, and was still recovering from a recent motorcycle accident.
J1pel TIL Nuclear Submarines can stay underwater for 30 years of operation. The only resource that limits the time underwater is the food supply for the crew and maintenance of the vessel.