Y7Eb7 TIL lifeguards at Flagler Beach, FL paddled through shark-infested waters to save a deer found swimming 300 yards offshore. The deer had been stranded in the ocean for over 90 minutes before making it safely back to shore. Deer rescue by surfboard—nature's irony at its finest!
BgGYr TIL that Rhesus monkeys show sex typed preferences for human toys that resemble human behaviour
rNMb4 TIL staunch segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer Asa Earl Carter wrote the novel that the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales is based on
NXOl1 TIL about “Rain of Fish” in Yoro, Honduras, where fish fall from the sky during heavy rainstorms
l7gVA TIL that the Sebastopol Bell in Windsor was looted from a Russian church during the Siege of Sebastopol in 1855 at the end of the Crimean War, and it is only rung when the most senior members of the British royal family pass away
8eY5Z TIL about Pearl Curran, an early 20th-century American novelist and poet who claimed all her work was channeled through the spirit of a long-deceased Englishwoman named Patience Worth.
P1Vrw TIL World's first known medical bachelor's degree issued by Al Qarawiyyin University in Fez in 1207AD to a Moroccan doctor Abdellah Bensaleh El-Koutami, who practiced medicine, pharmacy, and veterinary science.
epv9L TIL that James H. Salisbury, the inventor of Salisbury steak, was an early proponent of germ theory and invented his steak to prevent diarrhea
VBrZD TIL of the Brazen head, a construct in medieval folklore that could supposedly answer any question, also a common theme is them breaking them or exploding after their maker misses the chance to ask them a question
X0YKR TIL about Morris Abraham Cohen (born Moszek Abram Miączyn; 3 August 1887 – 7 September 1970), better known as Two-Gun Cohen, a Polish-born British and Canadian adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.
OGXN1 TIL Sarah Childress Polk got married at 21, became First Lady at 41, and after James K Polk died 103 days after leaving office, lived another 42 years, the longest widowhood of any First Lady.
69rKw TIL why 33⅓ LPs have small center holes and 45s have large ones. It's the result of a format war between Columbia Records and RCA, which gave 45s a larger hole to work better with automated record changers. Spindle adapters were later invented so both formats can play on the same turntable.