Bg0Bd TIL about the song Kill the Boer that was used by by anti-Apartheid activists.
rNy71 TIL there is a species of lizard that removes Lyme disease in ticks. A protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick's gut responsible for the disease.
NXxve TIL that the town of Talkeetna, Alaska had a orange cat as mayor for 20 years. Stubbs the cat even survived an assassination attempt by a dog.
l70N7 TIL Senator Henry G. Davis was the 1904 Democratic vice presidential nominee mainly because the party expected him to contribute money to the campaign, he didn't.
8e16a TIL that American citizens must have a valid U.S. passport to enter American Samoa
P1n5E TIL that staring at the mirror for a few minutes in light illumination can cause hallucinations. Tried and experienced it myself as well
epyWJ TIL that Sesame Street was fiercely rejected by the BBC in 1971 because it had “authoritarian aims”. Monica Sims, the network head of childrens programming at the time stated “This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television.”
VBOV8 TIL 95% of Londoners live within 400m of a bus stop
X0VP8 TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present for three of America’s four presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley)
OG49R TIL that multiple consultants to the 1992 film American Me, were murdered by the Mexican Mafia who were offended by certain scenes, with actor Danny Trejo putting the number killed at 10.
691oJ TIL about The Cube Rule of Food Identification through cuberule.com in which they explain what constitutes a sandwich (~3-5 minute read)
woyA1 TIL The New Mexico ranch where the 1947 Roswell UFO crash happened opened up to public tours for the first time in 2018. The crash site is not in Roswell but actually by the small town of Corona