EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
Y78XB TIL that George Rose, winner of 7 Tony Awards, was tortured and murdered by his adopted son and his family, and buried in an unmarked grave.
BgKNd TIL William Howard Taft, the heaviest ever US President, eventually lost much of his excess weight
rNBY1 TIL: (‴) are the symbol for the line unit; similarily how (′) meats feet and (″) means inch.
NXnee TIL about Ladera, an unincorporated Silicon Valley community that until 2021, "[forbid] residency by people 'other than those of the Caucasian or white race.'"
l7e87 TIL that the original "Diddy" sued Sean Combs over the name in 2006—and won!
8eKRa TIL Kinshasa is the most populated city in Africa with an estimated population of over 16 million people
epWpJ TIL ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ were both based on books written by Pierre Boulle
VBVB8 TIL that Thuy Trang, the actress who played the original yellow Power Ranger, was one of the Vietnamese boat people who left Vietnam on a boat after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War
P1WaE TIL during and immediately after the US Civil War, many -- like Frederick Douglass -- referred to it as the Slaveholders' Rebellion
X0P08 TIL it was not until episode 4 that they started using the famous bionic sound whenever the Six Million Dollar Man used his bionics
OG9GR TIL during the period aptly named as "the great dying" 57% of biological families on earth, uncluding 81% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate went extinct. The likely cause is volcanic activity turned the oceans toxic and released toxic gas like sulfuric dioxide into the air