epyJ5 TIL James Doohan (Star Trek's 'Scotty') stormed Juno beach on D-Day as a Canadian army Lieutenant, and was shot 6 times that evening by friendly fire, losing a finger.
VBOx4 TIL Coca Cola released a German advert celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fanta’s 1940 founding in Nazi Germany. Before it got pulled, it stated it wanted to “bring the feeling of the good old times back.”
X0VWj TIL The Sun is made of Plasma
OG4p7 TIL that in 2002 a strain of Cordyceps/Beauveria infected an immunocompromised woman in Germany despite the fungus being considered incapable of tolerating the temperature of the human body
691Zm TIL that Natural Spirit charges $2 for a single can of their sparkling water but charges $12 for four of them.
woya6 TIL of the burials of Hawaiian chiefs and Sacred burial Practices of the Ancient Native Hawaiians
R5WA9 TIL Illinois holds about 1/8 of all nuclear waste in the USA, by far the most for a state, about 10k tons.
W7Xnd TIL Max Planck opposed the atomic theory until the 1890s
9w5G7 TIL A raunchy adult joke book was a bestseller during the 80s!
nWyRB TIL That the Smoky Mountains are home to a temperate rainforest on a section of the mountains near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Worldwide, this is a very rare ecosystem that is not experienced by many other locations on earth.
4kmYo TIL that in 2013, a man tried to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil to promote a charity. He was run over and killed by a truck just 250 miles into his 10,000-mile trip
x67d7 TIL that in 1865, former Representative Robert Dale Owen, who had been in favor of women's suffrage, drafted an initial version of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment that did not restrict voting rights to men.