VBrWm TIL that Zohran Mamdani's Mother, Golden Lion winner & Oscar, BAFTA, & Golden Globe nominee, Mira Nair, was offered to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), and was convinced by Zohran to turn it down in favor of making The Namesake (2006) and to cast Kal Penn in it.
X0YwP TIL about Padre Guilherme, a Catholic priest from Portugal who DJs all around the world, turning church hymns into club bangers.
OGXk4 TIL that most of the benefits attributed to breastfeeding disappear when racial and socioeconomic disparities are accounted for.
69rY8 TIL A 'Tropical Night' in Europe is one where the nighttime temperature does not fall below 20 °C
woglP TIL that Susan Thompson Buffett, Warren Buffett's first wife, was the 153rd richest person in the world when she passed away in 2004. She owned 2.2 percent of Berkshire Hathaway worth about $3 billion at the time of her death.
R5Px4 TIL there is an Independence From Britain Day celebration almost EVERY WEEK from countries across the world!
W7BRN TIL Blue's Clues Star Steve Burns made Young Sheldon's theme song while also making a cameo appearance at S3E11 as Sheldon's Star Trek enthusiast friend.
9wE7M TIL in 2013, teens Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia chased a kidnapper on bikes to save a 5-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. Boggs was later convicted of armed robbery but paroled in 2019 after showing remorse.
nWg5o TIL about Patrick Combs, who deposited a $95,000 junk mail promotional check in 1995, only to see the bank clear it!
4klrg TIL during the Vietnam War, pilot Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom II aircraft to physically push his wingman's heavily damaged Phantom through the air to friendly airspace to avoid them having to bail out over North Vietnamese territory, even when his own jet's engine caught fire
x6gN5 TIL Japan has Professional Apologizers you can hire if you don’t to personally do it yourself
5VNB9 TIL A 2023 study found that Chinstrap penguins take over 10,000 micro-naps a day, each lasting 4 seconds. When combined, that totals more than 11 hours of sleep daily. They are also generally considered to be the most aggressive and ill-tempered species of penguin.[