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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt believed that American currency shouldn’t carry the motto “In God We Trust.”

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6ER4J TIL about the Double contrabass flute which is one of the lowest pitched metal flutes and the biggest with up to 22 feet of tubing and primarily is only found in flute choirs
LkEPr TIL: A guy tired of people getting injured in potholes around city took to artistic vigilantism to get them repaired by drawing penis around them.
na47 TIL that a blurry image is not always lost. There’s a program called SmartDeblur that can recover some types of blurry images.
ADZ9a TIL Physicists at Washington State University created 'negative mass' where unlike every known physical object in the world, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.
yLJ8 TIL there are so many different types of apples, if you were to eat a new one everyday, it would take almost 20 years to try them all.