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TIL the greatest maritime loss of life in US history is not the Titanic, but a steamboat disaster in 1865. After Union POWs returning from the horrors of Andersonville crowded The Sultana on their way home, 3 of the 4 boilers exploded, sinking the ship on the Mississippi river and killing 1,700

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R5jdQ TIL in the United States, Halloumi is a registered trademark owned by the government of Cyprus
xVxe7 TIL professional basketball player Marvin Barnes, once refused to board a plane from Louisville to St. Louis. Because the flight was scheduled to arrive (Central Time) before its departure time (Eastern Time), Barnes famously said, "I ain't getting in no damn time machine." He rented a car instead
5Wvk TIL Mark Zuckerberg once said, “People actually trust me… dumb fucks”.
QWBM TIL that Bulgaria was the only country to save all of it’s Jewish citizens from deportation to concentration camps
R7Aa6 TIL about Dr. Robert Liston, the fastest surgeon in the 19th century. Start to finish it took him 2 and a half minutes to amputate a leg. In his most famous mishap he took off an assistant's fingers as he cut through a leg. That surgery is the only known surgery with a 300% mortality rate.