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TIL Boeing employees were exhausted, either deliberately or unconsciously circumventing established processes and one even revealed of being hesitant to put his family on Boeing plane during the production of 737 max

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VBM6k TIL one group of former Disney animators created the designs for Tony the Tiger, Snap, Crackle and Pop, The Jolly Green Giant, and the mascot for the Baltimore Orioles
dDQ8 TIL Ziggy Marley sang the theme song for the kids show “Arthur”
WrE9 TIL the migration route of the Monarch Butterfly still takes an eastward turn over Lake Superior, then a few miles later takes a southward turn, in order to avoid a mountain that once existed there millennia ago.
WbP4 TIL the pulsejet engine can be made with zero moving parts.
ybdw TIL that the German word, Schnapsidee (liquor-idea) is a term for a plan one hatches when drunk, or a plan so stupid that you think it must have come from a drunken mind