› added 6 years ago

128

TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic has been performing with the same band his entire career.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

pY0PO TIL Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus is because it orbits the Sun more closely. Further, Mercury is the closest neighbor, on average, to each of the other seven planets in the solar system.
QJGOE TIL that for months, scientists in France could not figure out why seagulls they were tracking were traveling far inland, away from their breeding colony. Eventually, they traced the seagulls' path and discovered they were visiting a chip factory.
r8Re TIL An Israeli team of researchers invented a breathalyzer that can detect 17 different diseases, including two types of Parkinson’s, Crohn’s, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease, and cancers including lung cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer.
VBdXZ TIL about the Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: Where the NFL Champions play a team of College football Senior All Stars from 1934 to 1976. The NFL teams won 31 times, the College All Stars won 9 games, and two ties.
ANP8B TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.