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TIL Northern Hemisphere rainwater still contains 3x as much radioactive tritium than Southern Hemisphere rainwater due to atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the 1960s

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woXXP TIL Elliott Smith's seminal album "Figure 8" has a title track, originally released only in Japan - ironically, unlike all 16 tracks from Smith's fifth release, it wasn't written by him. The song is part of Bob Dorough's "Schoolhouse Rock!" educational series released in 1973.
bkra TIL that a woman in Brazil filled her vagina with poison in an attempt to kill her husband during oral sex.
yVeNw TIL Sarah Rector was an African-American girl who became so rich she was declared white
X0pWQ TIL Red fox, (Vulpes vulpes) has the largest natural distribution of any land mammal except human beings
yVYgp TIL What Really Happened to Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd