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TIL 2LT Jackie Robinson was court martialed for refusing to move to the back of the bus while serving in the Army in 1944, 11 years before Rosa Parks’ famous refusal

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ADKJn TIL cows in the U.S. are repeatedly impregnated (often by artificial insemination) so they can make milk nearly year-round.
L97d TIL: A college text manufacturer sued a student that was importing their cheaper international versions into the US for resale. The case went to the Supreme Court.
mxaDP TIL that if you use iTunes, you have already agreed not to use Apple products to create nuclear weapons as mentioned in the iTunes EULA.
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
wodRo TIL sharks are older than the Rings of Saturn