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TIL that most of Coheed and Cambria's music follows an overarching Sci Fi story called "The Amory Wars" and that each album was accompanied by a Graphic Novel release

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rR6B1 TIL that the office Treasurer of the United States has been held by women since 1949
xVNGo TIL that ventilators used to be respirators that holds a patient in an air-tight horizontal chamber with patient’s head out, pumping negative pressure to help the patient breathe back in 1930-1950s due to the polio epidemic
pYYDA TIL firecrackers were banned in Canada 50 years ago when some kids died in a tent fire.
6pLm TIL that tooth enamel, the hardest and most mineral dense substance in our bodies, is primarily composed of dense rods of hydroxyapatite crystals.
Wk8oN TIL of Gnosticism, a early form of Christianity that viewed Yahweh as a evil, lesser god who created the material universe (which was purposely flawed) . They believed Jesus saved them from Yahweh to meet the one, true God who was shrouded in mystery. This was condemned as heresy by the early church