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TIL that cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch of their body. For comparison, an entire human head has about 100,000 total hairs.

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PYo0n TIL that The Pyramid of Menkaure, one of the three Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau, was attempted to be Destroyed by the Son of Saladin, after 8 months they were Only able to create a Gash in the Pyramid.
V4Pp TIL a woman used drain cleaner to BLIND herself, and she says that she is happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong wish of becoming blind
j69yn TIL that NASA engineers created a set of beauty products because they thought astronauts might want to wear makeup during their space missions
X0Zvr TIL about the Coudersport Ice Mine in Pennsylvania. Huge ice formations up to 3' thick and 25' long appear in the cave during the spring and summer. The formations disappear in the winter.
QJxZa TIL the first pro-gay film in the world was a 1919 German film called “Different from the Others”. It was created as a protest against German laws that criminalised homosexuality. The Nazis destroyed most prints of the film, and only one known copy has survived.