a8EQL TIL that Pope Francis hasn't watched TV since 1990, after making a pledge to the Virgin Mary. It has kept him from watching his favorite soccer team, Buenos Aires-based San Lorenzo. So a member of the Swiss Guard tells him the scores and keeps him up to date on the standings
ZpPLG TIL Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his album "DAMN."
781xL TIL the greatest recorded temperature change in a 24 hour period is 103 degrees. On January 15, 1972 the temperature in Loma, Montana went from -54 to 49 degrees.
kJ5QW TIL of Roland the Farter, a performer who farted on command for the King and was awarded much land.
EgGlV TIL that Osama bin Laden's billionaire father died in a plane crash in 1967 due to a misjudged landing. His half-brother died in Texas in 1988 after piloting his own aircraft into power lines. In 2015, his half-sister and stepmother also died in a plane crash in Hampshire, England.
Y7eQv TIL General Mills produced a breakfast cereal that contained an indigestible food colouring, rendering some children's feces pink and forcing General Mills to make a new formula
Bg0eK TIL In 2022, a 30-year old was swept by the sea (along with a friend who was never found) while swimming in Halkidiki, Greece. He was rescued 20 hours later, holding on to a tiny football ball, 26km away from the beach they were swept from
rNyQy TIL that in 1860 the original 13th amendment to the Constitution was intended to preserve slavery in the states that already had it. Known as the Corwin Amendment, it was an attempt to forestall secession. It was passed by Congress, but ratification by states was suspended when the Civil War began.
NXxaQ TIL Gotham City from Batman is named after an English village known for being full of fools; in legend, in order to avoid a visit from the king, the villagers carried out absurd tasks, such as drowning an eel in water, to convince the king’s messengers they were imbeciles
l70Q5 TIL of the Crank Machine, a 19th Century device used in British prisons to keep prisoners occupied by turning sand within a sealed box. See also: the Penal Treadmill
P1ndO TIL that humans have 3 types of cone cells, allowing us to see all the colors we can see, other animals like dogs and cats only have two so they can’t see red for example while chickens have four and can even see UV Light.
VBOvp TIL while people often use the words ‘sign’ and ‘symptom’ interchangeably, from a Medical perspective a Symptom is something only the sufferer can perceive, like dizziness or pain while a Sign is something objective that a another person can perceive, like a visible rash or elevated temperature.