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TIL The original voice actress for South Park, who voiced pretty much all the female characters, killed herself in 1999

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GA9pg TIL: In 2020, a study was performed by asking pedestrians to cross a street hundreds of times and found that the likelihood of a car slowing down decreases by 3% for every $1000 in car value. The study followed up a Finnish study which concluded Audi, BMW, and Mercedes drivers were unempathetic.
E1ZEP TIL animals hover right around 1 billion heartbeats over the course of a lifetime except for humans and chickens who are just over 2 billion heartbeats.
OGxRL TIL Disney's Animal Kingdom was the brainchild of Imagineer Joe Rohde, who had previously designed the Adventurers Club at Pleasure Island. When presenting the idea of the new animal-themed park, Rohde brought a 400-pound Bengal tiger into the meeting with Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
n5bo TIL that in the Spring of 1976, groundskeepers at Anaheim stadium discovered hundreds of marijuana plants growing in the outfield, apparently left by thousands of Who fans who had attended a concert there in the offseason and scattered the seeds everywhere. Angels in the outfield indeed…
Wkgmo TIL no deaths are necessary for the crime of genocide to have been committed.