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TIL that people used to live in tree trunks

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mxDwP TIL that in 1923 Goodyear Tire created a subsidiary known as the Goodyear Zeppelin Company to manufacture airships, and between 1923 and 1995 it made over three hundred zeppelins.
ADOPB TIL that we eat our boogers as a way for our immune system to develop a resistance to the germs that are found in them. Also, our bodies make them taste sweet as a way to entice us to eat them. Our bodies want us to eat our boogers.
5LW8 TIL US Submariners have an 18 hour ‘day’. 6 hours of work, 6 hours of rest and chores, and 6 hours of sleep.
b6eX0 TIL In his last will and testament (25 March 1616), William Shakespeare left his second-best bed to his wife, Anne Hathaway.
bbWN TIL in 2001 a Los Angeles man, upset at the poor exit signage on the 110 Freeway, modified an overhead sign under the cover of night. Caltrans investigated it, approved of the workmanship, and left it up for eight years.