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TIL your metabolism doesn’t really slow down until after age 60

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J1PbQ TIL- The Lend-Lease bill signed by President FDR during WW2 was called House of Representative bill 1776 (H.R. 1776). The bill was purposely given the code 1776 as a jab at Britain but it allowed Britain to borrow an unlimited amount of money and supplies to defend against Hitler.
Amoo TIL That Paul McCartney always looked at Yoko Ono while recording “Get Back” song in the studio when line “Get back to where you once belonged.” came on
D1Owj TIL the name of the African country of Malawi translates literally to "Land of Flames," because iron working was the dominant economic practice of the pre-colonial kingdom that controlled the area. The sheer density of kilns were said to light up the countryside at night.
Y7mEP TIL we can eat some species of jellyfish.
edYk TIL Walt Disney’s last written words were “Kurt Russell”-and no one knows why. Kurt Russell was a child-actor working for Disney at the time, having just signed a ten year contract with the studio.