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TIL In 1968 MV Captain Leonidas was a ship that was tried to capsized in the deepest fjord in Western Hemisphere in Messier Channel, Pantagonia Chile. The reason was to claim insurance , but the ship stayed afloat, the captain's license was revoked & the shipwreck remained in the channel.

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gMeLy TIL After the US invasion of Kuwait in '91, American fast food restaurants became wildly popular and sprang up all across the country. Kuwait is currently the most obese nation on earth, with bariatric surgery being the most popular elective surgery in the nation.
bPM0 TIL in an interview Dave Grohl was asked “If you could spare one object from your house if it was on fire, what would it be?” Dave replied with “A letter Kurt Cobain gave me in ‘92 that said ‘I love you like a brother.”
Ypgrr TIL that Helen Magill White was the first American woman to earn a PhD. Raised by a Quaker father who believed she have the same education as her brothers, Helen attended Boston University, where in 1877, she earned a doctorate in Greek. Her thesis “the Greek Drama” was discovered at Cornell in 2018
GYV74 TIL after arriving in Italy for the Fourth Crusade, the crusader army could not fund their expedition. They spent the remainder of the crusade sacking an Italian city, getting excommunicated, and pillaging the Christian city of Constantinople. Very few went to the Holy Land.
E1G7o TIL that pumpernickel, a type of rye bread, is named after the Germanic word "pumpern" meaning flatulent, and "Nickel" a reference to to Old Nick (a familiar name for Satan). The dense bread is hard to digest, causing excess flatulence. Hence pumpernickel means "the devil's fart."