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TIL that the VLC media player uses a traffic cone as its logo because the students who created it had a traffic cone collection

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wo5n8 TIL that on the landing of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, the ICAO organization that gives code letters for airports issued its first non-Earth code: JZRO.
x6Eg7 TIL The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has its own version of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Ng5Q TIL, the youngest soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Dan Bullock was 15 years old
pAnN TIL Oregon state has a lake that drains every winter into a lava tube, turns into a meadow during the spring, and then turns back in to a lake in time for summer
BdPx TIL the Neapolitan mastiff almost died out in World War 2