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TIL Men’s skin is about 25% thicker than women’s because of testosterone, and has more collagen.

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b9r49 TIL in 1935, suspected for murder Lloyd Holmes shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol in a boatshed. However, the bullet only knocked him unconscious causing him to fall into the water. He later awoke, climbed into a speedboat, and lead the police on a chase for several hours.
NXZ4E TIL in 2014, a recently dumped Shanghai man and some friends deliberately booked every other seat in one of the city’s movie theaters, so couples could not sit together during their Valentine's Day movie date.
rZm0 TIL that President Herbert Hoover who resided over the beginning of the Great Depression had never once been elected to a government office before becoming President of the United States.
e0J1D TIL: One of the first inductees in the Poker Hall of Fame died 60 years before Poker was invented
Zp5Nv TIL a Transient Lunar Phenomenon is a short-lived change in light, color or appearance on the surface of the Moon. Reports of transient lunar phenomena range from bright flashes to permanent changes of the lunar landscape.