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TIL that James Brown starred in a video explaining the use of the Blower Door Test; a test used to evaluate the airtightness of a building

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X07vr TIL that an object's "Escape Velocity" (from any body of mass) is the same as the speed at which it would hit the ground if it were dropped from infinity (without external influence)
7rVRP TIL that the 250+ page novel Gadsby is written in English, and doesn't contain a single letter "e". "E" is the most commonly occurring letter in the English language.
0wxKM TIL Loofahs sponges are dried out fibres from a plant related to a squash
dDwWQ TIL Of Titanic Thompson, a prolific hustler and golfer of the early 20th century. One of Thompson's tricks was to play righthanded, win, and offer to play double or nothing lefthanded, he was naturally lefthanded. In his time a professional golfer could earn 30,000$ a year, he earned that in a week.
lKNA TIL: Those weird looking scientific instruments you always see in nuclear test footage contained live pigs [NSFL]