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TIL "pouring one out for the homies" is an ancient tradition that dates back to 2500 BC

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8abjL TIL a 60 years old Japanese Truck Driver found out he was accidentally switched at birth in 1953 at San Ikukai Hospital in Tokyo. His biological parents are rich family & the infant who took his place grew up to be the Head of a Real Estate company. Meanwhile he was raised by a poor single mother.
Br9Jb TIL that Logic’s song ‘1800-273-8255’ saved hundreds of lives because it is the number for the suicide prevention hotline, says study. After he performed the song in 2018 at the Grammys, suicide rates among 10-19 year olds dropped by 5.5 percent.
NEw8 TIL The Boudin bakery in San Francisco, has been making sourdough bread for 166 years and every loaf of sourdough bread they make has a portion of the original “mother dough” from 1849 in it.
6E1LX TIL about Chris Lee Burden, an American performance artist most well known for his work Shoot (1971), in which he had a friend shoot him in the arm using a small-caliber rifle.
x6VD5 TIL: Web 3.0 was originally meant to be a semantic web, making the internet machine readable.