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
8e14X TIL that, despite being Australia's only Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, the novelist Patrick White remained so unread in his home country that after a chapter of his novel was submitted to a dozen Australian publishers, all of them rejected the manuscript and none recognized it as his writing
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.
epyQ4 TIL: New Coke, the much-derided 1985 reformulation of the Coca-Cola recipe, was still being sold in the 21st Century. The product, now a cautionary tale for companies who attempt to change a beloved brand, lasted in the marketplace for 17 years and was only discontinued in 2002.