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TIL Karl Kruszelnicki's mother managed to escape Auschwitz during a shortage of Zyklon B.

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E0g7 TIL in the Blue Angels’ 63 year history, nearly 10% of its pilots have died in training or air show accidents.
j6N1a TIL of the Battle of May Island, a series of accidental collisions during WWI among Royal Navy vessels that resulted in 2 destroyed submarines, 3 damaged subs, 1 damaged cruiser, and 105 total deaths. No enemy forces were present.
Zx4R TIL that Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002
69P4Y TIL There's An Interactive Map Showing Every Tornado Touchdown In the United States From 1950-2021 And It's Searchable By Address, Rating F0-F5, Fatalities, Etc. 🌪️🌪️🌪️
gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.