4kx7J TIL although The Clash's debut album was not originally released in the U.S.A., it sold 100,000 import copies, making it the largest selling import album of its time.
x6DRg TIL American's Ate Nearly 1.5 Billion Chicken Wings for Super Bowl LX
5V4Z8 TIL that in the Rio Negro valley of Colombia, school children (known as "niños del cable") use a system of 800-meter (2,600 ft) long steel ziplines to cross 400-meter (1,300 ft) deep canyons. Traveling at speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph), this 30-second ride replaces a 2-hour trek through the jungle.
M75Wm TIL just how large southern elephant seals really are. For reference, Deep Blue, one of the largest great white sharks recorded, is said to be 20 feet long and weigh 5500 pounds. Her back is 8 feet tall. A southern bull elephant seal grows to be 20 feet long and weight 8800 pounds.
j6Ymn TIL In 2018 Russian soccer club FC Rostov released a kit that looked like a carpet after a fan had brought a carpet to a match because he didn't have room for it in his house that became known as the team's 'lucky carpet'
0dLBy TIL the man who invented peanut butter cups did so in his basement, which raises questions, but he also raised frogs and provided them to restaurants so people could eat frog legs, and now I don't know if I can eat a peanut butter cup again without thinking of frogs and hope none got in the basement
grNJL TIL the eulachon is a type of fish also called the candlefish, because its body is so fatty during spawning that if caught, dried and strung on a wick, it can be burned as candle.
LQK9r TIL Ottoman Sultans were legally allowed to execute their brothers, however the practice ended after 1595, when Mehmet III killed 19 of his brothers in the same evening, the youngest being 11 years old. After this incident, they switched to keeping their male relatives locked in the harem for life
b6VdE TIL that Money Laundering wasn't a federal offense in the United States until 1986
QNpOd TIL The Valeriepieris Circle is a region centred roughly on Myanmar/Southeast Asia with a radius of about 4,000 km. Despite covering only 6.7% of the Earth's surface, it contains more than half the world's population, over 4 billion people, thanks to China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and others.
AN8yw TIL that The Wizard of Oz (1939) barely broke even at the box office during its original theatrical run.
yVmwJ TIL Vincent Gigante, boss of the Genovese mafia family, pretended to be insane for almost 30 years to avoid prosecution. He would often walk the streets of New York City's Greenwich Village "in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself".