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TIL the last portrait painted of President Franklin D Roosevelt was left unfinished because during the sitting Roosevelt collapsed from a massive stroke and died a couple hours later

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5YdVn TIL that Steven Spielberg thought John Williams was joking the first time he played the JAWS theme for him.
VMKeD TIL that during WW1, a Canadian soldier brought his pet bear to Britain. He named the bear Winnie after his home town Winnipeg an later donated the bear to the London Zoo where a boy named Christopher Robin liked it so much it inspired his father to write about it, thus Winnie the Pooh.
VM15p TIL Homer Simpson and many other characters in the works of Matt Groening have the middle initial J as an homage to Rocky and Bullwinkle creator Jay Ward, who gave many of his own characters the same middle initial.
kJeO5 TIL of Stephen Hawking's reply to Einstein's famous quote "God does not play". He replied "Not only does God play dice but he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
yQVve Take a look out your window and you're bound to see a dinosaur or two—or at least the descendant of one. That little blue jay? Dinosaur. The obnoxious early rising crow? Dinosaur. The squirrel running up the tree? Well, that’s still a squirrel. But those feathered friends make your yard a real-life Jurassic Park. Most researchers believe birds are descendants of a group of dinosaurs that included the Tyrannosaurus rex. Fossil research has shown that birds and dinosaurs shared behaviors such as brooding and nest building. According to paleontologist and National Geographic grantee Jack Horner, it also stands to reason that dinosaurs had similar courting behaviors as today’s birds. Because various bird species tap-dance, moonwalk, and boogie to impress potential mates, it makes sense that dinosaurs did the same. Just imagine a giant T. rex with its tiny T. rex arms "twerking" its way into the heart of its intended. In this week’s Today I Learned, Horner explains how dinosaurs might have been the original smooth criminals.Read more about one species of Triceratops, Triceratops horridusAdditional footage provided by Cornell Lab of Ornithology