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TIL the first computer mouse was made of wood

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DQPZe TIL Drake bought a “fantastical, forgotten amusement park” made by famous artists such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Salvador Dali to name a few. The original park ran in Germany in 1987. You can go to see the original rides today in Los Angeles, at the carnival Luna Luna.
4XYl6 TIL that English actor Gary Oldman hired a dialect coach to regain his English accent because he lost it from living in California for too long.
R5bX9 TIL that psilocybin-assisted treatment improve drinking outcomes in patients with alcohol use disorder relative to outcomes observed with active placebo medication
Mem1a TIL To avoid using the German sounding name ‘hamburger’ during World War II, Americans used the name ‘Liberty Steak.’
5YeKk TIL that 1 in every 160 New Zealanders was part of the production of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy