9w51Q TIL about uncredited rewriting in the movie business- Judd Apatow isn't listed in the credits, but he was hired to rewrite The Cable Guy, Happy Gilmore, Liar Lair, The Wedding Singer, and Bruce Almighty
nWyP7 TIL that the rarest event ever recorded was the radioactive decay of xenon-124 (an isotope of the element xenon used in flash lamps and ion thrusters in spacecraft), which was detected by a dark matter detector
4kmZ6 TIL that Cloudflare (a security Internet company) use a wall of lavalamps called LavaRand to help create a totally random number to be used as seed in cryptographic algorithms
x67Zo TIL about a fancy apartment in Paris that was abandoned in 1942. It became a time capsule that remained untouched until 2010.
5V1an TIL the oldest confirmed dildo is ~28,000 years old, made of siltstone, has etched rings around the top, and is highly polished from use…
M7G87 TIL That while some citric acid is derived from lemon juice, the majority of citric acid commercially sold is extracted from a black mold called Aspergillus niger, which produces citric acid after it feeds on sugar
j6yON TIL that "gladiatrixes" fought to the death in ancient Rome.
0d1YR TIL that Chang and Eng Bunker, not only were the original "Siamese twins," but after traveling the world and making a pretty penny from exhibiting themselves, settled in North Carolina, became U.S. citizens, bought/owned slaves, and married two sisters whom they produced 21 children with.
gr5Qy TIL the United States is the only country that has a top-level domain for its military (.mil), its higher education system (.edu) and its government agencies (.gov) - a result of the Internet originating as a U.S. government-sponsored research network.
LQA79 TIL Aftershocks from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 are still occurring, with the most recent being a magnitude 7.0 in 2021.
b6yQa TIL that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns an enormous collection of fossils as a kind of byproduct of the Corps’s actual, more logistical purpose: flood control.
QN9o6 TIL that much like in the movie Dune, you can make earthworms surface by vibrating earth at a specific frequency. This technique is called 'worm grunting' and it consists in driving a stake in the ground and vibrating it using a metal rod. This technique is used to catch worms for fishing bait.