a8xxM TIL that Australia (at 7,682,300 sq km) is actually slightly larger than the continental USA (which is 7,663,942 sq km) when measured by land area only, excluding bodies of water.
Zpll4 TIL: The 34 yr-long Lenski Experiment has studied over 75,000 generations of E.coli since 1988 to understand evolution.
78MMO TIL that the term Bushwacker describes a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War.
kJVVd TIL After running out of cash, poker player Andrei Karpov bet and subsequently lost his wife in a poker game. When she found out she divorced him and willingly started dating (and eventually married) the winner.
EgKK0 TIL - China is by far the country with the most executions and they even have so called Death Vans which will just pick you up and execute you on the spot!
Y788Z TIL that the powerful engraving of Running Antelope, Chief of the Oncpapa (Hunkpapa) Lakota Sioux is featured on this large-sized $5 currency note from 1899. This is the first – and only – time a Native American image was used as the central motif on any U.S. paper currency.
BgKKW TIL that Frankie Muniz quit acting in 2008 to become an open-wheel racecar driver and currently competes in NASCAR
rNBBw TIL of the intense fued between James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", and Joe Tex. It got so bad Brown turned up to a club they were performing at and started a fight where 7 people were shot. Afterwards, a man gave "each one of the injured a hundred dollars apiece not to carry it no further".
NXnnP TIL Jimmy Carter has to go past a giant grinning peanut statue every week to get to church. He reportedly hates the thing.
l7ee1 TIL that Tommy Zeigler is the longest-serving death row inmate in the United States. He was sentenced to death by Florida in 1976 for killing 4 people in 1975. Over nearly 50 years, a team of lawyers, a private investigator, a true-crime author and others have uncovered major issues with the case.
8eKKP TIL: The Japanese video game, Persona 2, took 12 years to come to America, partially because of Hitler and swastikas being included.
epWWD Today I learned that Jim Henson wanted to make a live-action remake of Pinocchio in 1985, but Disney rejected the idea.