oRlnR TIL that Casanova, famous for seducing women, was a librarian
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme
a8EZZ TIL: Brad Pitt was banned from China for 17 years after filming Seven Years in Tibet.
ZpPOB TIL that the growing difference in car sizes in the USA means that as many as 25% of deaths would be prevented if everyone drove the same type of car — or 9,300 people/year
781K7 TIL Russia has leased a 12-mile circle of Kazakhstan named Baikonur. Its purpose is for space operations.
kJ5Mm TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first men to dissect Human and Animal corpses to study Anatomy and Nervous System.
EgGXw TIL that VLF, used to communicate with submarines, creates a bubble around the Earth that protects us from Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
Y7ewA TIL that castrated men do not go bald. Balding is caused by sex hormones which castrated men do not produce.
Bg09k TIL Chinese Qing emperors held early morning meetings with court officials everyday from 6, 7am. Along with important issues, Emperor Kangxi also attended trivial matters as he thought being careless even for a moment could cause trouble for the whole nation and disasters for later generations
NXx1J TIL the city of Sialkot, Pakistan makes about 70% of all footballs/soccer balls in the world
l704V TIL about a 1990 British sitcom about Adolf Hitler living next to a Jewish couple. A pilot episode for the show was actually produced and aired but shortly after got cancled.