KYKwJ TIL there’s an abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans that was shut down after heavy damage from Katrina. It’s been used for various films such as Percy Jackson, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Jurassic World.
a8x6N TIL in 1954 a Hurricane hit Canada at a category 1 despite traveling all the way inland from the Carolinas. It killed 81 people in the Toronto area, 95 in the US, and 469 in Haiti.
Zplxv TIL there are 8 Mediterranean seas. In oceanography, a Mediterranean sea is defined as a mostly enclosed body of water with limited exchange with outer oceans, where water circulation is primarily driven by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds or tides.
78MaM TIL that a year on Venus is shorter than a day on Venus
kJV45 TIL: Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and You, voice acted in two Mario games for the Nintendo 64 (Mario Golf and Mario Tennis)
EgKZo TIL Robert A. Wardhaugh, a Canadian historian is known as host of the longest uninterrupted Dungeons & Dragons campaign; going on for 42 years. "Perhaps 3 weeks has been the longest we've ever gone without a session".
Y78kx TIL During the opening Blitzkrieg of WW2, that while the German Army possessed motorized vehicles and an impressive tank strategy, the majority of her forces relied on horse-drawn transport and supply
BgKay TIL Throughout recorded history, a wild orca has never killed a human, even though they are capable of ending even a greath white shark. Captive orcas have however have killed 4 people, out of which 3 were done by the same specimen.
rNB1d TIL about the 1863 Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100), a military codified law that governed the wartime conduct of the United States Union Army, making it one of the first armies in human history that prohibited r@pe, looting, arson, etc., with the punishment often being execution.
NXngb TIL NASA's Gemini 6a astronauts & craft were saved by a fluke. At ignition an electrical plug came off shutting down the engines. Later a dust cover was found left on a gas generator in error. Had the plug not fallen off the furl flow would have been choked, triggering a perilous pad ejection.
l7enK TIL that in 1967 a referendum was held in Gibraltar asking citizens to decide whether to pass under Spanish sovereignty; 2 people out of 12,233 voted yes
8eKlG TIL that life expectancy at birth probably averaged only about 10 years for most of human history