yVa8V TIL that after leaving office, former US President John Tyler supported the Confederacy, with him even voting for Virginia’s secession and being elected to the Confederate House of Representatives.
m1eZx TIL About a transplant of a man's middle finger as a penis (including bones), and that it was still functional a decade later
DQWBg TIL In Norway the Storting, consisting of the president and five vice presidents. The system with five vice presidents was implemented in 2009. According to current practice, political parties are represented proportionately in the Storting's Presidium.
vPk67 TIL the reason West Virginia and Virginia are split is because Virginia seceeded during the Civil War but West Virginia decided to come back to the Union
J1VO4 TIL that there is a near-perfectly circular, ultra-faint radio bubble (“Teleios”) detected in the Milky Way with no obvious optical or X-ray counterpart, and its symmetry is unusually high.
pYl4b TIL there was a successful petition to get an Australian prisoner released after his 100th birthday, only for him to say "don't be fucking silly I live here" and refuse to leave.
GA6Rj TIL that Richard Nixon is the only US president to be born on the west coast, and in any mainland state west of Texas
16E5d TIL that in African thought, a person lives on as long as they’re remembered. In Sasha and Zamani concept, the “living-dead” stay alive in memory until the last person who remembers them dies.
oR8xE TIL the first ever nuclear meltdown happened in June 1948 at Reactor-A1 (nicknamed Annushka) at the Mayak Complex in Siberia. Annushka would melt down again in July 1948 and March 1949, the latter accident killing at least 173 people.
dDnZB TIL Abraham Lincoln became the first historical figure to appear on a U.S. coin when pennies were redesigned in 1909, in honor of the former president's would-be 100th birthday.
KYe8a TIL the world’s hottest pepper is currently Pepper X from the PuckerButt Pepper Company
a8mpb TIL on January 8, 1977, a series of bomb attacks struck Moscow, targeting the metro system and other public places. The most significant was a bomb in the Moscow Metro, killing seven people and injuring dozens.