j6Xxv TIL that German soldier Alfred Liskow defected to the Soviets the day before Operation Barbarossa to warn them of Germany's imminent invasion, only to be arrested by the NKVD for spreading "disinformation."
0dmNj TIL the most infamous form of the lobotomy was not the original technique.
grwa4 TIL 20 years ago, William Shatner released his 2nd musical album "HAS BEEN." Produced & arranged by Ben Folds, featuring collaborations with recording artists Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, Henry Rollins, Adrian Belew, Lemon Jelly, and Brad Paisley. It has been called "one of the 10 best albums of 2004."
LQxOZ TIL Two of the highest concentrations of tornadoes outside the U.S. are Argentina and Bangladesh.
b64vN TIL Catholic Church has a birthday. Pentecost is the birthday of the Catholic Church.
QNRMp TIL of the Super Chief a train that was famous for carrying start between Chicago and Los Angeles back in the day.
ANKYB TIL that Gregor Mendel (famous for his pea plant experiment in genetics) was taught physics and astronomy by Christian Doppler, who the Doppler effect in weather is named after, and Mendel founded the Austrian Meteorological Society.
yVAOa TIL how criminals launder money
m1P5M TIL 99% of all US chicken is washed in chlorine before reaching consumers.
DQKeJ TIL a male anglerfish exists only to find and permanently attach to a female. He becomes nothing but a set of balls on the female - who may have many such sets…
vPbOD TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered.
J1Kwm TIL about cosmic microwave background which is the cooled remnant of the first light that could ever travel freely throughout the universe. This 'fossil' radiation, the furthest that any telescope can see, was released soon after the 'Big Bang'.