VBbmp TIL that the deadliest incident involving trains happened when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit an overloaded train carrying upwards of 1700 passengers in Sri Lanka.
X0bvr TIL about Dracula Daily, a newsletter which runs from May 3rd to November 7th each year, sending chapters of Bram Stoker's Dracula to its subscribers on the day they are meant to take place.
OGvAg TIL that just five years after Rush’s drummer Neil Peart passed away from Glioblastoma (an aggressive form of brain cancer) at age 67, his younger brother Danny also passed away from the exact same cancer.
69wRW TIL Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime; he died thinking he was a failure
wo4J8 TIL - The Clinical Case of Tarrare, an 18th-century French with insatiable appetite
R5yv8 TIL there was once a Tinder match on Antarctica
W7bvo TIL all Puerto Rican birth certificates issued before 2010 were invalidated
9wXOQ TIL the Denver Nuggets (original basketball team disbanded in 1950, which the current NBA team is named after) were originally the Denver Jellymakers and Denver Piggly Wigglys
nWMB7 TIL it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen on Svalbard, Norway. Anyone who is dying is asked to leave for the mainland. Burials are also illegal due to the permafrost and any bodies are shipped to the mainland for burial.
4kW96 TIL that “Wi-Fi” isn’t short for “Wireless Fidelity” it was just a marketing name.
x6nJo TIL at least 11 children have been born in Antarctica.
epbOn TIL that Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (released November 26, 1996) was the first commercially released video game to feature a canonically queer protagonist. The game’s protagonist Curtis Craig, was an openly bisexual man navigating trauma, a corporate job, and supernatural horror.