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TIL Water is transparent to the human eye because of evolution. As Brian Skinner wrote: “Water is essentially opaque to all light except a narrow band of wavelengths that happen to correspond to the ones used by our eyes"

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Ve1G TIL Mary Poppins was shot entirely indoors.
OGloL TIL Victor Hayes role in establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks from its inception in 1990 to 2000 has led to him being nicknamed as the "Father of Wi-Fi".
e0eQ4 TIL There's a strong correlation between social mobility and equality, an unequal society will have stagnant social classes, in fact out of 8 countries studied the USA, the country with the highest inequality, also had the worst social mobility while Denmark, the most equal, had the best
8aKJX TIL three-toed sloths only poop once every three weeks because their metabolism is so slow
KYMpG TIL “The Mountain” from GoT forced himself onto his ex in order to prove that he didn’t cheat on her