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TIL Iran’s Air Force Flies American-Made F-14 Tomcats

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QN9mE TIL Axolotls are able to regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks
1yL4 TIL there is one reported incident of a midair collision of a 737 and a fish.
PYleZ TIL The ancient Greeks had known the world is round since Pythagoras, and successfully calculated the circumference of the globe when Eratosthenes measued the angles of the mid-day sun between two towns of a known distance. His calculation had only about a 10% margin of error.
e0074 TIL that the famous Disney signature you see at the beginning of the movies is not Walt Disney’s actual signature, it was made by Disney Co.’s marketing team in the 80’s- years after Disney’s death.
LQY5v TIL that there are more ethnic Norwegians living in USA than in Norway.