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TIL I learned that the physicist Richard Feynman once spend an evening breaking spaghettis apart to study their breaking patterns.

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xkG0 TIL that 110 people once tied for second prize in the Powerball lottery. Officials suspected cheating but discovered that the winners had all used the “lucky numbers” off copies of the same fortune from fortune cookies.
R7re9 TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper.
X07gX TIL about Octopolis and Octlantis are two separate non-human underwater settlements built by the gloomy octopuses
a8kAZ TIL that a double denim outfit, is also known as a “Canadian tuxedo”
m1ZZv TIL that when the Bible was first translated into Finnish, there was no word for lion since nobody had ever seen one. The translator instead used the word “jalopeura” which means “noble deer”