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TIL Eragon (2006) was the last film to be released on VHS in the United States

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K4ER TIL a larger number of bumper stickers on a car indicates a higher likelihood of being involved in a road rage incident.
jvon TIL during the California Gold Rush, the distinct lack of women in San Fransisco caused gay culture to flourish. Men would often pay for “female impersonators” to be prostitutes.
G64j TIL that over the last decades the Florida Manatee population has increased by 500% possibly removing them from the endangered species list
m1Wxo TIL that Quipu, intricate arrays of knotted cords, were used by Andean cultures to record data without a written language.
4o8J TIL: Dr. Seuss was confronted by a feminist who stated there are no strong female roles in his books. He then remarked his characters are animals, and “if she can identify their sex, I’ll remember her in my will.”