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TIL the Greenland Shark, which is similar to the Great White in size, can live to be 200 years old and has been known to eat Polar Bears, Horse, Moose and Reindeer.

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W4BB TIL When invented in 1840s, some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”
GA97E TIL of the Tel Aviv central bus station - a mega structure that includes a nuclear bomb shelter for 16,000 people. The station was designed to be confusing, so that commuters would spend time shopping. Most of it became completely abandoned, taken over by violent criminals and even a colony of bats.
MwD0 TIL that oral sex makes pregnancies safer and more successful
LQmwr TIL that The Matrix (1999) motion picture is a disguised depiction of Jesus's Life, where Neo's Life is about finding out if He's The One. He gets killed only to get resurrected. Cypher is Judas and Morpheus is John The Baptist.
J0pQ TIL The walk disturbance (where a person is so worried about how they walk that they may lose balance) may appear with social anxiety, especially when passing a group of people.