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TIL Alligator Snapping Turtles can live over 150 years, and some have been found with musketballs and flint arrowheads in their shells

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MRNA TIL There is greater inequality in Manhattan today than existed in South Africa before Apartheid ended
XE6vQ TIL Jaime Foxx’s real name is Eric Marlon Bishop. When he found that female comedians were often called first at the club he was performing at, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx to prevent bias.
ep5DD TIL that in 2013, the first known Tinder match in Antarctica happened when two researchers—one at McMurdo Station and another camping in the Dry Valleys—swiped right on each other. They were about a 45-minute helicopter ride apart.
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.
xO70 TIL Spotify has 4 million songs that haven’t been played once. That’s 20% of all their songs.