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TIL That Maryland’s Official State Sport is Jousting

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RwPj TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
wLav7 The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock has started running in Iceland
MeKM7 TIL Xerox and Cannon created the Machine Identification Code. A digital watermark which certain color laser printers and copiers leave on every single printed page, allowing identification of the device with which a document was printed and giving clues to the originator
Aepn TIL Danny DeVito was asked if he would voice Pikachu in the American version of the game “Great Detective Pikachu”, he declined the offer by saying “What the F is Pokemon?”
xVLOo TIL Smaller animals perceive time slower than bigger ones.