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TIL that in 2018, the town of Mayo, Florida, temporarily changed its name to Miracle Whip

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5mgr TIL Dave Chappelle’s maternal grandfather was a blind Caucasian who was raised to believe that he was African-American. Mirroring his famous white supremacist skit.
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide
9BZp TIL an Asian woman has never won the oscar for best actress. In the entire history of the academy awards, only one has ever even been nominated, and it was over 80 years ago.
J1YZ4 TIL dogs and some other animals have photoreceptors in their eyes activated by magnetic fields, meaning it's possible that these animals have a magnetic sense that is linked to their visual system
W5vY TIL Alfred Hitchcock created the horror masterpiece, Psycho, with the belief that people would see it as a comedy. “The content was, I felt, rather amusing and it was a big joke,” Hitchcock explained in tapes discovered in the BBC archives in 2014.