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TIL there’s a bracelet with a white bead that carries water from Mt. Everest and on the opposite side, a black bead which contains mud from the Dead Sea (the highest and lowest points on Earth)

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p8QpO TIL a Kansas woman drove her car 1,000,000 miles in just 5 years.
VBKR0 TIL Rich Harvard Law Professor sued tiny Chinese Restaurant for $4 and lost both case and his job.
kgwm TIL in some parts of India, there is a “No Toilet, No Bride” campaign, which promotes the use of toilets by encouraging women not to marry men who do not own a toilet.
9w7OD TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days
wmN7 TIL that in 1975, Morgantown, WV (Pop. 30,000) built a personal rapid transit system that comes at the push of a button, skips the stations you don’t want and is still carrying 15,000 people/day today