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TIL A study in the UK found that the number of CEOs of top companies with red hair was four times higher than the percentage of persons with red hair in the general population.

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KY8vE TIL the Gibson guitar that Peter Frampton played on his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive!”, was lost for 32 years after the guitar was put on a cargo plane that crashed. The guitar ended up being owned by a musician on a Caribbean island, before a collector spotted it and contacted Frampton in 2012.
Kk9 TIL there is a completely uninhabited village in North Korea built solely for propaganda, with dozens of empty buildings.
6EElW TIL the drug called Antabuse is sometimes prescribed to alcoholics to help them abstain. If Antabuse is in your system when you ingest alcohol, it produces an immediate and exceedingly unpleasant physical reaction, including a severe hangover.
v6XK TIL Billboards are illegal in Vermont
yVvQl TIL that there are only 8 bear species in the world. I don’t know how I’ve gotten this far without thinking about how I’ve never thought about any of the bears outside this chart.